Subject: Re: VAX not booting devices
To: None <port-vax@netbsd.org>
From: Philipp Buehler <Philipp.Buehler@xlink.net>
List: port-vax
Date: 01/12/1999 22:34:41
David Evans wrote:
> Philipp Buehler wrote:
> >
> > It boot's til bootmonitor w/o problems (countdown til 3). If i
> > type a 'b mua0' I get an DEVOFFLINE despite that, the TK70 is making
> > some sounds (I do not know what would be the normal sound). And I
> > even can't unload the tape.
>
> You inserted the TK70 properly, right? Lift, insert, drop, button?
The machine is 'new', and the tape was inserted already.
> > I have no clue where the system is installed. Maybe even on the SCSI-HDD,
> > but I do not know the bootname for that device.
> >
>
> dub0, perhaps. Does "show qbus" or "show dev" do anything? IIRC the MV3500
> has those.
Hm, 'show' is DCL then? I have no system for now, only VBM. I was told
to look up the possible hardware with 'test 50' ...
ciao
--
Philipp Buehler, aka fIpS | <lonely stuff > | double-p on IRC
VAX/OpenVMS: No compromise computing.
When you think that your power's gone,
cry it out and you won't be lone.
--Kyyria, 1998