Subject: Re: Need help netbooting VAX
To: Bruce Lane <kyrrin@bluefeathertech.com>
From: Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
List: port-vax
Date: 01/17/1999 11:40:29
>
> Second kicker (and I strongly suspect this is related to the first): When
> I give the VAXStation II/GPX system the command 'b/100 esa0' (sans quotes),
> it responds as it should with 'Bootfile:'
>
> I tell it mopboot. Almost immediately, it comes back with:
>
> ?41 DEVASSIGN, ESA0
> ?06 HLT INST
> PC = 00000EE6
> Failure.
> >>>
>
Yep, the 'DEVASSIGN' message means that you tries to boot from a nonexistent
device. And I'm rather sure you do, ESA0 is the LANCE chip on VAXstations;
you have a MV2 and should therefore boot from XQA0 instead :-)
-- Ragge