Booting a VAXstation 4000 VLC off the hobbyist boot CD-ROM

From: David Betz <dbetz_at_xlisper.mv.com>
Date: Thu Jul 15 12:39:49 2004

Thanks for your suggestions!

On Jul 15, 2004, at 1:03 PM, Antonio Carlini wrote:
> B/R5:10000000 DKA400:
>
> (that's 1 followed by 7 zeroes).
>

I tried this and ultimately got the same "DKA400: is offline" message.
I guess it doesn't like this CD-ROM drive either. This is the last one
I have to try. Maybe I can find someone with one at VCF East tomorrow.

For what it's worth, here is the complete transcript of my attempt to
boot VMS from the hobbyist CD-ROM:

KA48-A V1.3-343-V4.0
08-00-2B-33-EE-74
24MB


OK

>>> show dev

   VMS/VMB ADDR DEVTYPE NUMBYTES RM/FX WP DEVNAM
     REV
   ------- ---- ------- -------- ----- -- ------
     ---
   ESA0 08-00-2B-33-EE-74
   DKA0 A/0/0 DISK 526.10MB FX LPS525S
     3110
   DKA400 A/4/0 RODISK 681.57MB RM WP CD-ROM
     1.01
  ..HostID.. A/6 INITR



>>> show config

KA48-A V1.3-343-V4.0
08-00-2B-33-EE-74
24MB

DEVNBR DEVNAM INFO
------ -------- --------------------------
      1 NVR OK
      2 LCG OK
                        HR - 8 PLN FB - V1.2
      3 DZ OK
      4 CACHE OK
      5 MEM OK
                       24MB = S0/1=8MB, S2/3=8MB, S4/5=8MB
      6 FPU OK
      7 IT OK
      8 SYS OK
      9 NI OK
     10 SCSI OK
                       0-LPS525S 4-CD-ROM 6-INITR
     11 AUD OK

>>> b/r5:10000000 dka400:


-DKA400
%SYSBOOT-I-SYSBOOT Mapping the SYSDUMP.DMP on the System Disk
%SYSBOOT-W-SYSBOOT Can not map SYSDUMP.DMP on the System Disk
%SYSBOOT-W-SYSBOOT Can not map PAGEFILE.SYS on the System Disk
    OpenVMS (TM) VAX Version X72T Major version id = 1 Minor version id
= 0

%SYSINIT-E, %SYSINIT, error opening system dump file, status = 00000910
%SYSINIT, primary PAGEFILE.SYS not found; system initialization
continuing
%SYSINIT, no dump file - error log buffers not saved
%SYSTEM-I-MOUNTVER, DKA400: is offline. Mount verification in progress.
Received on Thu Jul 15 2004 - 12:39:49 BST