[Info-vax] DEC Multia (UDB) issues

[Kari Uusimäki]

On 19.10.2011 13:46, MG wrote:
> On 19-10-2011 9:33, Kari Uusimäki wrote:
>> On 18.10.2011 14:07, MG wrote:
>>> How am I supposed to do a foreign boot (via ">>> BOOT DKA`nnn`,DVA0
>>> -FLAGS 0,8000") like that? Because that seems the whole idea. Or, is
>>> media swapping possible?
>>>
>> Did you try that?
>> You need to have the Installation CD in the CD-ROM drive and the floppy
>> with the special drivers in the floppy drive when you attempt to boot.
>
> Of course I did (didn't you see my earlier post?), but, I got several
> errors, including the very annoying "No Floppy Disk In Drive".
>
> I guess what I could try is, as Bart Zorn suggested, to prepare a CD
> with LD in an Alpha emulator with the foreign bootstrap image (instead
> of a floppy diskette). But, as I asked, I don't know if the whole boot
> procedure will work; unless I connected another CD-ROM drive...?
>
> - MG

It is possible to boot normally (no foreign boot) from a disk which 
consists of the VMS installation CD contents with the special drivers 
added. You can also make an installation CD where the special drivers 
are included.
I might have such a disk somewhere.

If the floppy drive tries to read the floppy, but thinks the drive is 
empty, then the drive must be faulty.


Kari