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From: osm@ox.com (Owen Scott Medd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: Booting a DECsystem 5000
Message-ID: <1990Sep27.143852.15126@ox.com>
Date: 27 Sep 90 14:38:52 GMT
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In article <1990Sep26.183304.14449@ox.com> osm@ox.com (Me) writes:
# "boot -f tz(0,5)".  Hmmm, what's this error message?
# 
# ?STX: boot [many options, none of them -f]

Thanks to all the people who posted and mailed me the answer.  As was
said, we have Very New
ROMs, and the boot command has changed radically (as well as a number of
others).  There is
supposed to be some additional documentation included with the new
DS5000s describing the
change, but we did not receive a copy.

A postscript copy of a document describing the changes is in

decuac.dec.com:~ftp/public/postscript/DS5000_console_command_comparison.ps

I also received a postscript copy of the customer letter (part number
EK-FSFCO-WS or
maybe DS5000_boot_commands.ps somewhere for ftp) which describes the new
boot procedures in
more detail.


Owen
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