[Info-vax] Trying to boot a MicroVAX II with VMS 7.3

[JF Mezei]

Robert Jarratt wrote:

> I have tried MOP booting standalone backup but I get the same problem with 
> an SCB/Machine Check error when running NISCS_LOAD.EXE; this is almost 
> certainly because I have a DEQNA which is not supported by VMS 7.3.


I have looked at my old MVII modparams. The "interconnect" is set to NI
and not NICI. (I think that I got the NICI when moving to a DSSI based VAX).

I am not sure what  AUTOGEN does with the INTERCONNECT parameter. But it
doesn't appear to be in SYSGEN or in VAXVMSSYS.PAR file.

You can create a standalone backup bootable disk. For instance, you can
create a bootable disk where the SYS0 directory contains a minimalist
VMS with the standalone backup image.



> I have the MDM files but I am not sure I know how to make a boot tape out of 
> them, can anyone tell me how to do this? Would be possible to MOP boot MDM?

MDM would expect the files be on the tape in the right order. I had once
created a kit containing those files and a readme file with the order in
which they should be placed. But someone mentioned that they had never
been able to make it work.