[HECnet] Boot VAX from Alpha host Infoserver?

[Kari Uusim ki]

Fred wrote:
On Mon, 23 Nov 2009, Kari Uusim  ki wrote:
When you have selected the Infoserver service where you have the distribution, does is show up as a (LAST) connection on the Infoserver?
You can see the connected clients by useing the Infoserver management command:

Infoserver> show last



I am not sure how to determine this.   When I boot the VAX and give it the ISL boot file, make it look for services, it comes back with something similar to:   (the VAX is off and I'm ssh'ed in from somewhere at the moment so this is from memory)
Services on MISER 00-xx-xx-xx-xx               <-phy MAC of MISER
#   1 VAXVMS073
Choose:
I choose #1, and then it just sits.
Have you checked that the SYSBOOT.EXE is continuous?
Directory LDA3:[000000.SYS0.SYSEXE]
SYSBOOT.EXE;1                                 File ID:   (935,1,0)
Size:                   137/144               Owner:       [SYSTEM]
Created:       16-MAR-2001 03:09:12.56
Revised:         2-APR-2001 16:07:46.06 (2)
Expires:       <None specified>
Backup:         <No backup recorded>
Effective:   <None specified>
Recording:   <None specified>
Accessed:     <None specified>
Attributes: <None specified>
Modified:     <None specified>
Linkcount:   1
File organization:   Sequential
Shelved state:           Online
Caching attribute:   Writethrough
File attributes:       Allocation: 144, Extend: 0, Global buffer count: 0
                                      No version limit, Contiguous
Record format:           Fixed length 512 byte records
Record attributes:   None
RMS attributes:         None
Journaling enabled: None
File protection:       System:RWED, Owner:RWED, Group:RWED, World:
Access Cntrl List:   None
Client attributes:   None
Total of 1 file, 137/144 blocks.
Fred

Well, I'm not sure if you need to do it in this case, but it doesn't hurt if you do the following on the LD disk

$ mc writeboot

Select to update the VAX bootblock on the LD disk.

If you have already done it, please ignore this.

Regards,

Kari