[HECnet] Boot VAX from Alpha host Infoserver?

[Fred]

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?

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