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

[Steven Schweda]

Robert Jarratt wrote:
> I am trying various ways to boot my MicroVAX II. I am currently unable to do
> this using MOP because 7.3 does not support DEQNA. So I am now trying
> standalone backup using TK50. I created the kit on another machine running
> 7.3 and put it into the MicroVAX II. After a while I got:
>
> %SYSBOOT-F-PFN allocation overwrites CI ucode.

   How much memory is in that thing?  (Not enough for VMS
V7.3?)

   The mu-VAX II console is so lame that I'm not sure if it
can tell you easily.  Later models had a SHOW MEMORY command.
Without the MicroVAX Diagnostic Monitor software, I don't know
how to do it, other than inspecting the hardware.

> This seems to be related to SYSGEN parameters essentially requesting too
> much memory. Is there a way to generate a standalone backup kit on another
> machine such that I can avoid this issue?

   Issue?  Is that anything like a _problem_?

   Perhaps, if you have another system running some older,
smaller version of VMS.