[Info-vax] Hobbyist RX2620

[John H. Reinhardt]

On Mar 6, 2:56 pm, d... at y7mail.com wrote:
> Hi Alaln,
>
> When entering the EFI shell I see (Manually typed)
>
> Loading.: EFI Shell [Built-in]
> EFI Shell version 1.10 [14.62]
> EltCheckDevice : error reading catalog Device Error
> Device mapping table
>   blk0 : Acpi(HWP0002,0)/Pci(2|0)/Ata(Primary,Master)
>   blk1 : Acpi(HWP0002,100)/Pci(1|0)/Scsi(Pun0,Lun0)
>   blk2 : Acpi(HWP0002,100)/Pci(1|0)/Scsi(Pun1,Lun0)
> Shell>
>
> The light on the DVD Rom flashes and if the VMS DVD is not in the
> drive I do not EltCheckDevice : error reading catalog Device Error.
>
> Starting to indicate my DVD Rom is dead.
>
> Should I see other devices in the device mapping table?
>
> Dug

Dug,

   The blk0 device happens to be your DVD-ROM drive.  What kind of out
put do you get when you do a "dblk blk0" at the EFI shell prompt?
That will dump the first 2048 bytes of whatever is in the DVD.  If you
see data there then your DVD drive is probably okay and I would
suspect the OpenVMS media is bad.  Is it actual HP product or is it a
user made copy?  If it's a copy then it's possible it was made
incorrectly.  That's easy to do as the boot DVD is a peculiar format.

  John H. Reinhardt