[Info-vax] Error mounting system device after cluster creation

[hb]

On 7/7/19 6:20 PM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> %SYSINIT-E-FAIMOUBOO, failed to mount system bootstrap storage device
> -SYSINIT-I-FORMORINF, for more info, use HELP /MESSAGE %x007280B4

You probably mean "HELP /MESSAGE /STATUS=%X007280B4"

And one could dream of getting to a command line prompt to fix the
problem, something like busybox, when this happens on Linux.

> Why not display the translated output for the code?  The boot
> environment is limited in what it can do and what gets dragged along
> here.  Not that embedding the error messages is a particular problem in
> this current era and not that the EFI/UEFI boot environment isn't vastly
> more capable than the old home-grown stuff from earlier eras, but what
> the boot environment could do and what it could reasonably drag along
> was once limited.  The developer tossed out what they thought was a
> pretty good message at the time, too.

SYSINIT is the first user mode* program activated during system start.
That's long after any EFI/UEFI boot code ran. But it is activated before
the file system and RMS are initialized. So it is limited in how and
what it can access on the boot disk.

* Activated in user mode but most of its code is running in inner modes.