[HECnet] SIMH for VMS on VAX

[Brian Schenkenberger, VAXman-]

Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> writes: 

On 01/17/2013 02:44 PM, Brian Schenkenberger, VAXman- wrote: >> On
01/17/2013 02:11 PM, Mark Benson wrote: >> Not a damn thing. ;) >> It
hasn't been powered on in about two >> years. > > For shame. >> >>
Sorry, I have nothing to run on it.   If you fix that problem, I'll >> be
very happy. :) > > Which Integrity model is it??? 

It's not.   Companies other than HP made Itanium2 machines, you know.
;)   It's an Intel SR870BN4, which I believe is the reference platform
for the Itanium2.   A good friend (a fairly hardcore VMS admin) told me
rather explicitly that VMS will not run on it.   That said, I've never
tried. 

Yes, I'm aware of other mfgs of Itanium based systems.



Should I try?   Do you have any tricks?   Or can you assist otherwise?
I'd love to run VMS on it.   I'll go put it in a rack *right now* if the
answer is yes. 

If you can access its BMC to boot from DVD, then see what happens when
you execute the EFI boot file for VMS.   It if can't boot, it will show
up rather quickly if VMS is not able to find support drivers and other
primordial bits and pieces to boot.

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