[Info-vax] Installing OpenVMS 8.4 on Integrity rx2800 with no local disks

[Eberhard Heuser]

Am 12.01.2016 um 12:37 schrieb Eberhard Heuser via Info-vax:
> Am 29.01.2015 um 21:56 schrieb MG via Info-vax:
>> Tom Wade schreef op 29-jan-2015 om 21:36:
>>> I have to install OpenVMS 8.4 on an Integrity rx2800 i2.  It has no
>>> local disks, only SAN storage.  From what I can see, this system cannot
>>> boot from the DVD due to lack of support for the SATA DVD drive in the
>>> base O/S.
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> I have access to an rx2600 (currently running 8.3).  I was considering
>>> using this machine to install 8.4 with patch UPDATE5 on a USB stick, 
>>> and
>>> trying to boot that on the target machine.  Is this feasible ?
>>
>> Never tried that myself, but then I never owned anything beyond an
>> rx2620 (Integrity/IPF-wise).
>>
>> Doesn't the rx2600 have iLO 2 (or beyond that?) with "virtual media"
>> capability?
>>
>>  - MG
>>
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>
> The DVD-drive access goes through a SCSI-driver and it is possible to 
> boot the
> machine from this local DVD-drive (I've tested this). There is a 
> remastered DVD of VMS 8.4
> that might help.
>
> Eberhard
>

This is an excerpt of sys$config.dat to show that vms supports a 
SATA-device:

device          = "Intel ICH10 AHCI SATA"
   name          = PK
   driver        = sys$pkddriver.exe
   adapter       = PCIE
   id            = 0x3A228086
   boot_class    = DK
   boot_flags    = HW_CTRL_LTR, UNIT_0
   flags         = SCSI, PORT, BOOT
end_device