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

[JF Mezei]

Wilm Boerhout wrote:

> 
> SYSBOOT> USE DEFAULT
> 
> This will *almost* allow you to boot /any/ VMS version on /any/ 
> hardware, 


The question becomes whether the defaults will work on an 8mb All Mighty
microvax II.  Not sure what the SPD says about MVII support for 7.3. It
could be that 8mb is just not enough.

BTW, to the original poster:

There is a way to gnerate a disk based standalone backup. You could then
change the LANCP or NCP database to point that node to the standalone
backup hiearchy. (say you point the boot to SYS21 isntead of SYS1 and
SYS21 contains the standalone backup).

This is a much faster method than booting from a TK50 which is measured
in hours intead of seconds.