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

[Wilm Boerhout]

Robert Jarratt vaguely mentioned on 29-3-2009 22:39:

[snip]

> I tried USE DEFAULT, but this is what happened when I did:
> 
> SYSBOOT>  USE DEFAULT
> 
> SYSBOOT>  SET STARTUP_P1 "MIN"
> 
> SYSBOOT>  SET VAXCLUSTER 0
> 
> SYSBOOT>  CONTINUE
> 
> %SYSBOOT-F-PFN allocation overwrites CI ucode.
> ?06 HLT INST
>    PC = 00208526
>>>>
> 
> So, I have been trying lots of different values for NPAGEDYN (when I 
> realised it was in bytes and not pages) and I either get the PFN error 
> or an error about insufficient non-paged pool. One combination gave me:
> 
>   OpenVMS (TM) VAX Version V7.3     Major version id = 1 Minor version 
> id = 0
> 
> UNABLE TO TAKE BUGCHECK AT THIS POINT IN BOOTSTRAP
> BUGCHECK CODE IS 0000063C
> EXCEPTION PC IS 8031C212
> STACK POINTER IS 806E55C8
> ?06 HLT INST
>    PC = 8029B811
> 
> About to try this one again as it could have been a glitch.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Rob

I will have access to a "MicroVAX II" tomorrow. I'll let you know what 
happens.

/Wilm