[HECnet] Boot VAX from Alpha host Infoserver?

[Fred]

On Mon, 23 Nov 2009, gerry77 at mail.com wrote:

Do you have a working CR-ROM drive at least on the Alpha system? Have you
tried serving a real CD-ROM and not a LD device?

I *had* a working CDROM on the Alpha, but for whatever reason it is now broke.   :(   I have plenty of IDE drives laying around, and that is going to be my project tonight - install a new IDE CDROM, and try to serve the CD from there instead of an LD device.

Just out of my curiosity: does Wireshark dissect the LAD/LAST protocol or
just identifies it (by its Ethertype)?

It just detects the Ethertype.   It doesn't claim to know anything other than that ...

If you have another system around (VAX or Alpha doesn't matter), you may
want to try to connect to the Infoserver with the LAD client to ensure that

Chicken and egg: I many two other VAXen around, but they are all in the same situation as my 4000, no OS.

Type something like the following:
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I tried this *locally* from MISER (which is serving the disk) and it works.   Not sure if this is a fair test.

Tonight when I get home after getting finished with $dayjob I'm going to continue banging on this ... I had a nice conversation with Steve Davidson yesterday he's also attempting to get me straightened out.     I always find it amazing on (most) mailing lists how quickly help comes when someone needs it!

I'll keep the list posted on my progress.

Fred