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The Question is: Hi VMS' Wizards, Please forgive me for the easy question, but I'm a newbie on OpenVMS. I'm trying to load OpenVMS 7.2 on a spare 500a machine with IDE CD-ROM (although SRM reports 500au). OpenVMS loads OK, but it hangs after "jumping to boostrap code" , for INIT_OP_DB-F-CFG_DEV_NOT_FOUND. I found a solution for OpenVMS 7.1 , ie the ECO alpdriv10_071, that I downloaded via FTP. Now the question are: Is it still valid for version 7.2 ? How do I recreate the disk to 'boot -fl 0,80000 dqa0, dva0' ?? I mean, I got the file: How can I create the disk in a way is understood by the boot process ??? Please note that I do not have any other VMS machine (this is a spare machine from my office t hat I brough home and I got the Hobbst Licence). Thanks a million. The Answer is : The Personal Workstation -a series platform is NOT supported by OpenVMS. Various models of the Personal Workstation -a series do have various hardware-level differences from the -au series. The OpenVMS Wizard will assume that all PCI widgets are supported by OpenVMS. Further, there are variations of the -au series which do not permit IDE bootstraps. In particular, systems with the Cypress chip can bootstrap OpenVMS from IDE CD-ROM or from SCSI CD-ROM, while systems with the Intel SIO must bootstrap from SCSI CD-ROM. Current OpenVMS distribution kits do correctly bootstrap from IDE-based CD-ROM media on those Personal Workstation systems that have support for it. (eg: those members of the -au series with the Cypress chip.) There are no VMSINSTAL-based OpenVMS ECO kits (eg: ALPDRIV10_071) for OpenVMS Alpha V7.1-2 and later. Only PCSI-based ECO kits are used, and VMSINSTAL-based ECO kits cannot and should not be installed on OpenVMS Alpha V7.1-2 and later.
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