Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!uw-beaver!milton!dali.cs.montana.edu!samsung!usc!ucsd!rutgers!mcnc!decvax.dec.com!deccrl!bacchus.pa.dec.com!vixie From: vixie@wrl.dec.com (Paul Vixie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,comp.sys.ultrix Subject: Re: Booting a DECsystem 5000 Message-ID: <1990Sep27.064811.128@wrl.dec.com> Date: 27 Sep 90 06:48:11 GMT References: <1990Sep26.183304.14449@ox.com> Organization: DEC Western Research Lab Lines: 27 In article <1990Sep26.183304.14449@ox.com> osm@ox.com (Owen Scott Medd) writes: # "boot -f tz(0,5)". Hmmm, what's this error message? # # ?STX: boot [many options, none of them -f] Try, since you seem to have Very New ROMs, boot 5/tz0 or maybe boot 5/tz0/vmunix other possibilities include boot 6/mop boot 5/rz0/vmunix Note, as usual, that if you do this and it makes your machine explode, you have only yourself to blame for listening to a guy in a research lab instead of to your field service rep. Cheers, -- Paul Vixie DEC Western Research Lab Palo Alto, California ...!decwrl!vixie