[Info-vax] InfoServer 150

[Bob Wilson]

On Tuesday, January 29, 2019 at 3:57:45 PM UTC-5, Bill Gunshannon wrote:

> I started looking at all of the Layered Products disks I
> have and pulled the ones with an Infoserver directory.
> On VAXBINDEC975 which would be DEC 1997 Disk 5 I found a
> cache of documentation.  One of the documents was
> "INFOSERV035A_SYSOPS_GUIDE.TXT".  In it I found a list of
> what all the saved configuration settings should be.  I
> assumed because of its age the battery was probably dead
> and all the settings would be blank.  I was wrong.  All
> of them were correct, except for one.  BFLG.  Mine was
> 0000000 and the book says it should be D000000.  Yes,
> that's a "D".  I  have no idea  what it means but after
> fixing that the system booted from the ancient hard disk,
> Of course, I didn't know the Password but there were
> instructions to fix that, too.  And they worked.  So,
> I now have an Infoserver 150 running V2.2.  The next
> step is going to be figuring out how to clone that disk
> before I try doing anything with the box.  Once I do
> that, it's upgrade time.  I will use one of the many
> CD's I have made over the last wee to bring it up to
> V3.5  And then the real fun begins.


Hey, glad to see that it worked out, eventually.

Btw, that was D followed by seven zero's, right? Your posting shows only six zeros.

bflg is boot flags, otherwise known as R5. Did you try booting with B/R5:D0000000 ? As far as I know it's effectively the same thing (let's just say that that's my understanding of how the two relate...maybe not!). I know, I know bflg is persistent and /R5: is a one-shot kind of thing, but their effect should be the same.

As for managing the box, hah! :-)...not going to touch that one. If you're not follicly challenged already, you will be.

bw