[HECnet] Auto-booting a MicroVAX 3400

[Steve Davidson]

I'm out-of-town.   Took a few minutes to catch-up on email.   I will be
back online later this evening (very late - you will already be asleep).

-Steve 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE 
[mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of sampsa at mac.com
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2012 07:55
To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Subject: Re: [HECnet] Auto-booting a MicroVAX 3400

BTW, you're up either really early or late, what's up? 

Sampsa


On 14 Dec 2012, at 14:49, Steve Davidson <jeep at scshome.net> wrote:

Don't set the system root device for the satellite node!   
Let the boot 
node take care of ISL using the MAC address of the satellite.

-Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE
[mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Jordi Guillaumes i 
Pons
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2012 04:00
To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Subject: Re: [HECnet] Auto-booting a MicroVAX 3400

If it is like a 3300 (and I think it is) there are TWO switches to 
set up properly to get an autoboot. I'll check my 3300's 
when I get 
home this evening and I'll post the positions I have got.

Also, take into consideration the uVAX won't boot if the NVRAM 
battery is dead... (It will try to netboot IIRC).

Oh, one last thing, you should set the default boot device:

SET BOOT Dxxx

And if it is clustered:

SET BFLAG x0000000 (being "x" the root suffix)


El 13/12/2012, a les 22:58, sampsa at mac.com va escriure:

I did read the manual actually - but it talks about some
physical switch to put it in "normal" console mode - I 
think that's   
what it's in right now.

Jordi Guillaumes i Pons
jg at jordi.guillaumes.name
HECnet: BITXOV::JGUILLAUMES