swap PWS600au from Linux to VMS ?

[Didier Morandi_2]

Hello all,

I have a PWS600au with Linux/Alpha installed on it. I also have a BA350 with two disks. One of them has VMS 7.3-1 on it.

I wish to boot from that disk and perform a restore of the local system disk, because the PWS600 has an IDE CD-ROM (for the moment).

When I boot and get to the SRM prompt, I see my PKA controller but not the disks 200 and 300.

What would you do to have vms installed as fast as possible?

Merci beaucoup.
:-)

D.

[Ian Miller. · Accepted solution]

I'm glad you are upgrading your PWS600 :-)

It sounds like you have a hardware problem preventing the disks in the BA350 from being visable.

What sort of IDE CDROM is it? Some are ok to boot from

[Didier Morandi_2]

:-)

I have the wrong one (checked with the faq and actually tried to boot from it).

I also guess that I may have a termination problem, as my BA has a to connect another BA...

D.

[Ian Miller.]

Can you describe your hardware a bit more?
Is the internal onboard scsi connected to a connector on the back of the box or is it another card and if so what card?
I guess you have a cable from the back of the PWS to the BA350 IO personality module - what connectors do you have on that. Is there another cable from that to another BA350?

[Jan van den Ende]

Didier,

since you came from *X, is your console variable OS_TYPE set to OPENVMS?
If not, then make it so.

(and thx for the Nashua pictures!)

Proost.

Buvez un(e) de moi.

jpe

[Didier Morandi_2]

re: Ian
Good guess. And I found that I do have two PK cards. I plugged the BA in the other one and now all is fine. There maybe a terminator in one card and not in the other one.

re: Jan
I did.

Now let's experiment MOP boot... :-)

[Didier Morandi_2]

Happiness is seeing a BA disk from a Linux Station...