Industrial VAX 630 booting saga

From: David Woyciesjes <dwoyciesjes_at_comcast.net>
Date: Thu Mar 27 08:20:00 2003

David Woyciesjes wrote:
>
> John Allain wrote:
> >
> > > Loading system software
> > > ?4C DEVINACT, DUA0
> >
> > http://h71000.www7.hp.com/wizard/wiz_1622.html
> >
> > "Please check existing discussions of the "serpentine" nature of the
> > Q-bus module configuration available here in Ask The Wizard such as
> > topic (1149), ...
> > This could well be a problem with the Q-bus configuration, with the
> > disk controller (probably an RQDX3 series controller), with the disk
> > connection,..."
> >
> > John A.
>
> Well, after looking at that article, and topic 1149, it seems that I've
> created a small problem by moving only two of the boards over and not
> the rest, when I removed the M7602 QVSS video board.
>
> --

        Yep. That appears to be the answer. It's booting now VAX/VMS V5.1 Major
id = 1 Minor id = 0.
        Now it's asking for the date and time, but for the life of me I can't
seem to input a valid answer! Help!?!

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---Dave Woyciesjes
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Received on Thu Mar 27 2003 - 08:20:00 GMT

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