[HECnet] Weird boot error

[Brian Schenkenberger, VAXman-]

Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> writes:

On Tue, 19 Nov 2013, G. wrote:

%SYSBOOT-E-Unable to locate file PKCDRIVER.EXE

For some (strange) reason your MicroVAX ROM decided not to output the above
two messages but to consider every byte as an error message number, and to
output the corresponding error message identification.


Could be that the install was done on a MicroVAX 3100 and I tried to boot 
it in a VAXstation 4000/60.


THat should make no difference.   If it's a SCSI drive that can be read and
written by both systems, it should work with one caveat -- the VMS version
on the disk much be able to support the vintage of the VAX upon which the
boot is performed.   Check this chart for minimum VMS suport for particular
VMS supported systems.

http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/hw_supportchart.html

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