zx2000 , VMS 8.3 can not install

[Steven Schweda]

> [...] Then it stopped..

That _is_ the symptom when the DVD-ROM is on
the (right-looking but) wrong cable.

[brendanh]

Its a SCSI DVD ROM.
A HP SCSI DVD-Rom.
I can't find any doco on if the zx2000 is picky for SCSI ID's
I've tried 512/2048 block size to.

THanks
Brendan

[Steven Schweda]

> Its a SCSI DVD ROM.

I can read, honest. I must have fallen
asleep at "HP". Around here (after I yanked
a hard disk drive and stuck in a Sun-approved
Toshiba DVD-ROM drive at ID=6):

Shell> devices
[...]
19 D X X 1 1 - LSI Logic Ultra160 SCSI Controller
48 D X X 1 1 - HL-DT-STDVD-ROM GDR8160B
[...]
4B B - - 1 2 1 Acpi(HWP0002,600)/Pci(1|0)/Scsi(Pun6,Lun0)
[...]

Shell> map
Device mapping table
fs0 : Acpi(HWP0002,600)/Pci(1|0)/Scsi(Pun1,Lun0)/HD(Part1,Sig4C883571-C59B-11
DC-BA20-AA000400FEFF)
fs1 : Acpi(HWP0002,600)/Pci(1|0)/Scsi(Pun1,Lun0)/HD(Part4,Sig4C883570-C59B-11
DC-BA21-AA000400FEFF)
fs2 : Acpi(HWP0002,600)/Pci(1|0)/Scsi(Pun6,Lun0)/HD(Part1,Sig7AA08C95)
[...]


Shell> fs2:

fs2:\> \efi\vms\vms_loader.efi


HP OpenVMS Industry Standard 64 Operating System, Version V8.3-1H1
© Copyright 1976-2007 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.

%PKA0, Copyright (c) 1998 LSI Logic PKW V3.2.20 ROM 4.19
%PKA0, SCSI Chip is SYM53C1010/66, Operating mode is SE Ultra SCSI

Installing required known files...

Configuring devices...

%EIA0, Link up: 100 mbit, full duplex, flow control (receive only)

****************************************************************

You can install or upgrade the OpenVMS I64 operating system
or you can install or upgrade layered products that are included
on the OpenVMS I64 distribution media (CD/DVD).
[...]

$$$ show devi /full DKA600:

Disk DKA600:, device type TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-M1711, is online, mounted, [...]


That's with the 512-byte-block jumper
installed.

Similar results navigating down through:

Boot Option Maintenance Menu
Boot from a File
080_3_1H1 [Acpi(HWP0002,600)/Pci(1|0)/Scsi(Pun6,Lun0)/HD(Part1,S


You must live wrong.

[Hoff]

I'd swap the SCSI DVD-ROM drive for an IDE DVD-ROM or DVD+R/RW drive, as a test.

There are comparatively few SCSI DVD devices around, and my experience with them has been somewhat mixed. (SCSI CD and CD-R/RW drives worked OK, though.) Drives built from SCSI to IDE adapters can also have mixed results.

[brendanh]

Hoff:-
All my IDE DVD Roms give me the "DQ medium not ready" error.

Also tried DVD+R and DVD-R

I think that my zx2000 is not healthy.
Although Linux,HP-UX and win2003 work fine and it passes all off line diag checks.

I don't understand why every other OS works!

Thanks
Brendan

[Jur van der Burg]

> originally tried that command "fs0:\
>\EFI\VMS\vms_loader.efi -flags 30000,0"

That's wrong. Use 0,30000 for the flags and it may show some REAL info.

Jur.

[brendanh]

Jur van der Burg :-

Hangs at the same place as every other command I've used.

Thanks

[brendanh]

Steven Schweda:-

Only thing different seems to be your using an LSI 1010 based SCSi card.
I am using an LSI 1030 with HP EFI firmware.
From what I have read this should work fine.

I know the DVD-rom works because its from my Sun Enterprise 3000.

Thanks

[brendanh]

All,

I booted the DVD with the following:-
vms_loader.efi -flags 0,20000

After a wile text stops scrolling, DVD stops reading system hangs.
All though this time I've got more information.

System will not go past "%SWAPPER-I-SYSDISK, checking status of system disk"

I notice that this what a lot of people got with the IDE DVD-ROM on the wrong cable trick.
Since i am using SCSI that can not be

Heres a copy of the last lines..
_____________________________________________
%GPS-I-Seeking BusType:15 Chan:00 Slot:00000000.FF5E0000 HCDP Dev
%GPS-I-Found BootDev ADP:8808C540 BAE:8808CA38 Slot: 00000000.FF5E0000
%IOC$DISC_BOOT-I-DISC_PBD, Disconnecting from primary boot device
%EXECINIT-I-INITSMP, initializing SMP environment
%EXECINIT-I-PBM, building process bitmap
%EXECINIT-I-PSTATE, setting process states
%EXECINIT-I-PHV, filling process header vector
%EXECINIT-I-PAGSWPVEC, filling page/swap file vector
%EXECINIT-I-INITS, calling initialization routines
%EXECINIT-I-TMVPTES, setting TMV up with its PTEs
%EXECINIT-I-SVAPTE, setting up EXE$GL_SVAPTE
%EXECINIT-I-BLD_LOCKID, building the lock id table
%EXECINIT-I-BLD_RESHASH, building the resource hash table
%EXECINIT-I-RESMEMALC, performing reserved memory allocation
%EXECINIT-I-CLRWARM, clearing warm-start flag
%EXECINIT-I-CLRCOLD, clearing cold-start flag
%EXECINIT-I-ACTIVESET, joining ACTIVE set
%EXECINIT-S-CIAO, transferring to the scheduler
%SWAPPER-I-SHUFFLE, executing SWAPPER initialization code
%SWAPPER-I-SYSDISK, checking status of system disk
___________________________________________

Hope this helps
Brendan

[Heuser-Hofmann]

It is not possible to boot from a SCSI-DVD because SCSI-DVD-drive switch automatically to 2048 bytes per I/O whereas VMS only handles 512 bytes per I/O.

My advise is to use USB.

Eberhard