[Info-vax] VAXCluster vs. VMSCluster?

[AdeV]

Wilm Boerhout may or may not have intoned:
> AdeV mentioned  on 9-1-2010 2:58:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > FWIW, VMS cheerfully installed off the recordable disk - once I'd got to
> > a $ prompt. It just couldn't boot AND install from a standing start.
> 
> But it should have: booting standalone backup from a source drive (disk, 
> tape, CD-ROM) and restoring saveset VMS073.B (using $BACKUP /IMAGE) to 
> the target drive, then booting from the target drive and completing the 
> installation (using the other VMS073.* saveset from the source media) it 
> the standard way to install VMS. So somehow, the source media was not 
> bootable on the target machine?

It started to boot; it gave me the three pagefile messages, then the 
Welcome to OpenVMS message, at which point it simply hung & would go no 
further.

Maybe there was one file which was corrupt, which it needed to boot into 
the backup environment; which wasn't needed when restoring the image to 
disk. I'm pretty sure it was corruption rather than just an inability to 
read, as the hung system had to be powercycled - pressing the reset 
button, or the Halt key on the console, had no effect.

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Cheers!
Ade.