[HECnet] Bringing up a MicroVAX 3100-80

[G.]

On Mon, 30 Mar 2020 17:51:21 -0400, Supratim Sanyal wrote:

> What is the recommended way to recover from "FILNOTCNTG" error?

Boot the system in some other way (cluster satellite, CD-ROM, etc.) and
check that SYSBOOT.EXE is contiguous:

$ DIR/FULL DKA100:[VMS$COMMON.SYSEXE]SYSBOOT.EXE;0

The "File Attributes" line must show "Contiguous" and hopefully "MoveFile
disabled" too. If not, COPY/CONTIGUOUS it to a newer version of the same in
the same directory and try the boot again.

The other possibility is that the volume is damaged or does not contain a
valid VMS file structure. In this case the FILNOTCNTG error is just an
indication that VMB.EXE (in ROM) got very confused by your disk's contents.

HTH, :)
G.