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

[glen herrmannsfeldt]

Michael Kraemer <m.kraemer at gsi.de> wrote:
(snip on CD boot VAX)
 
> It's not just that 512 byte story,
> VAXen are extremely picky as far as boot CD-ROMs are concerned.
> I never had success beyond original RRDxx and possibly 
> Toshiba XM-4101B. Even the often cited panacea "Plextor"
> sometimes fails. 

Last time I did it, even with a 512B CD drive it didn't work.
I copied the CD to a SCSI disk with dd running NetBSD (I believe
on the VAX) and then booted that.  If you have a few 1GB SCSI
disks around that is probably the best way.  It might boot
faster than of CD, too.

-- glen