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

[Wilm Boerhout]

Robert Jarratt vaguely mentioned on 29-3-2009 19:47:

> In the conversational boot I tried
>    SET PHYSICALPAGES 16384
>    SET STARTUP_P1 "MIN"
> But it went back to the "%SYSBOOT-F-PFN allocation overwrites CI ucode." 
> error. So then I tried:
>    SET PHYSICALPAGES 16384
>    SET STARTUP_P1 "MIN"
>    SET NPAGEDYN 16384
>    SET BALSETCNT 4
>    SET VIRTUALPAGECNT 512
> The latter three are the minimum values for the parameters mentioned in 
> the solution for the PFN error. This time I got "%SYSBOOT-F-Not enough 
> non-paged pool to map TTDRIVER.EXE". I think that NPAGEDYN should be 
> less than 8MB but SYSBOOT insists that the minimum value permitted is 
> 16384.
> 
> I think there is a chance that there is a hardware problem but is it 
> likely to manifest itself like this?
> 
> Regards
> 
> Rob

Did you start your conversational boot session with

SYSBOOT> USE DEFAULT

?

/Wilm