error when booting vms 7.3-1

[John Gillings]

Igor,

You didn't mention the version or hardware model.

There's a patch which corrects this symptom for V7.3, when booting an ES40 or higher class system with more than 16GB.

VMS73_SYSBOOT-V0100 (rolled into VMS73_UPDATE-V0100).

If you've upgraded your memory since the original installation, this is probably why it's failing now.

Try booting from V7.3-1 or V7.3-2 CDs, it's not relevant what version you're actually running. Otherwise, use SYS$SYSTEM:AXPVMS$PCSI_INSTALL_MIN to build a minimal OpenVMS on another disk (trust be this is SO much faster than booting from CD that I'd be advising it anyway!)