[HECnet] OpenVMS on VAXstation 4000/60

Cory Smelosky b4 at gewt.net
Wed Oct 2 21:45:19 PDT 2013


On Wed, 2 Oct 2013, Brian Schenkenberger, VAXman- wrote:

Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> writes:

On Wed, 2 Oct 2013, Kari Uusim=E4ki wrote:=0D
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On 2.10.2013 23:11, Cory Smelosky wrote:=0D
Hello,=0D
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I finally managed yo get a console working on this...so I want to get it=
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on to HECnet again=0D
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However when booting from CD-ROM: %SYSBOOT-E-System version mismatch=0D
found EXEC_INIT.EXE=0D
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What am I forgetting to do?=0D
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It would be much easier to diagnose if you would describe how you are doi=
ng =0D
the boot, with which parameters and in which phase you get the error mess=
age.=0D
Even better to post the whole booting session output from your console.=
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Simply: boot dka300   (DKA300 is the CD-ROM)=0D
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It does this shortly after loading the boot images.   7.2 gets =0D
further...but it BUGCHKs before entering BACKUP.=0D

Are these OPenVMS installation disks you burned yourself?   Are you trying
to read these with an RD45 or earlier?



I burned them myself, yes.   The drive shows up as "RDDISK"...it's not an official RRD40/RRD45.

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