[Info-vax] InfoServer 150

[Dave Froble]

On 1/28/2019 9:50 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 1/28/19 9:31 AM, John E. Malmberg wrote:
>> On 1/28/2019 8:03 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>> On 1/28/19 4:17 AM, hb wrote:
>>>> On 1/27/19 11:44 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>>>>>> it does matter. You can't mount the .iso or the CD you have
>>>>>> created as
>>>>>> a drive on  Windows or Linux so it will look like a coaster,
>>>>> Right.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Not that it solved the initial problem, but there are a couple of tools
>>>> to access/mount an ODS-x disk/CD on Windows or Linux.
>>>>
>>>
>>> The coasters were because instead of loading the image on the
>>> CD/R it created a directory and copied the .img (or renamed
>>> .iso) file to the newly created directory.
>>>
>>> For those still following I have installed imgburner and it says
>>> the .img file is "invalid or unsupported image file format".  I
>>> tried the wodim command offered and it burned a CD that, when
>>> examined, appears to be identical to the .img file.  It also
>>> does not boot.  LED on the drive flashes a few times, goes
>>> out and the system just sits there until I hit the reset button.
>>> I have even tried waiting for over an hour because, after all,
>>> it is a very small, slow VAX  (KA41-2).
>>>
>>> So, I have now tried a combination of 9 different OS/Applications
>>> for burning CD's.  It still doesn't boot.  Either the images are
>>> not what we all seem to think they should be or the Infoserver is,
>>> in fact, dead.  Even if it seems to go through the startup just
>>> fine.
>>>
>>> I don't think I am going to win this one.
>>
>> I just remembered that the VAXen CD-ROM drives of that era were very
>> picky about what recordable media that they would read.  They may not
>> be able to completely read the more modern media.
>
> All the CDROM drives I have used have successfully booted and installed
> other OSes on the VAX from CD/R's.
>
>>
>> But you do not need a CD-ROM image.  You can temporarily replace the
>> CD-ROM with a hard drive that contains the infoserver boot image.
>> Preferably write locked.
>
> Tried that, too.  No success.
>
>>
>> A linux system should be able to create the disk image or
>> backup/physical should also.
>
> I did it using dd on a BSD box.  A VAX, no less.  :-)
> But it still doesn't boot.  You would think I would at
> least get some kind of error message but it is as if the
> drive was just empty.
>
> I did figure out how to do the MODE stuff with IMGBurn (and
> learned what the CUE file is all about) and burned yet another
> CD making sure the MODE was right.  It would not use the .img
> file but it did accept the same file with the extension changed
> to .iso.  It still won't boot, but then, I still don't think
> just changing the extension would be enough to make an invalid
> file suddenly valid.
>
> bill
>
>

Have you tried booting that CD on another VAX?

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