[Info-vax] MicroVAX 3100-30 - won't boot...

[Mike Rechtman]

AdeV wrote:
> Wilm Boerhout may or may not have intoned:
>> Steven Schweda mentioned  on 31-12-2009 14:38:
>>
>>
>> [snipped]
>>
>>>    Otherwise, there is some boot-time debugging which can be
>>> turned on.  Should be in the FAQ.
>> B /R5:20000 [DKAxxx] should get you some, /R5:30000 some more
> 
> Thanks for the advice, Wilm. 
> 
> Both of those changed the output message, so instead of displaying the 
> VMS banner, I got:
>   [same sysboot messages as last time, about the paging file, then]
>   %SYSBOOT-E-Unable to locate file PDDRIVER.EXE
>     83 BOOT SYS
> 
> The uVax then tried to boot from the network, until I told it not to.
> 
> Seems to me the CDR is not being read properly?
> 
from bitter experience -  the older the CD drive the more likely it is to fail 
to boot from a non-original CD, even from a CDR written as a direct copy using 
CDRECORD on an alpha machine.

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