[Info-vax] Tertiary VMB?

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On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 02:34:22 -0800 (PST), H Vlems <hvlems at freenet.de> wrote:

> Off the top of my head, the tertiary loader is used only in network
> boots.

Yes, it's indeed a network thing, at least when speaking about VAXen.

> database. I suppose there must be a guide to local area vax clusters that 
> covers this topic, or perhaps the cluster management manual?

The cluster management manual has examples about setting up a system as a boot
server for VAX satellites, and in such examples there are mentions about
TERTIARY_VMB.EXE as a tertiary loader, but I've never found anything that
actually explains which are its functions. On the other hand, a simple Google
search locates a good number of references (among them a paper on cluster
internals by Keith Parris) about the satellite boot steps, and they all list
only NISCS_LOAD, in the very same way as in the papers I cited two days ago.

I'm stuck! :-\
G.