Xref: utzoo comp.sys.dec:4677 comp.os.vms:33294
Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!lll-winken!unixhub!slacvm!kencb
From: KENCB@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,comp.os.vms
Subject: How do you set the default BOOT device on a VS3200?
Message-ID: <90341.154758KENCB@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 7 Dec 90 23:47:57 GMT
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Lines: 35


    Can anyone out there tell be how to set the default BOOT device
on a VAXstation 3200??

    Situation is as follows: Our collaborators originally brought their
VS3200 to our site diskless.  All was fine, just hooked it up to the
Ethernet and ran that way for about a year and a half.  We have a
mixed-interconnect cluster of 2-11/780s and and 11/785 on the CI talking
to an HSC50, plus 3-VS2000's and a VS3100 (in addition to the VS3200) on
the E-net.

    I finally talked them into buying a local disk and 8mm tape. Now when
the system boots, it tried DUA0, then MUA0, and finally gets to XQA0
before booting.  That assumes the 8mm drive is empty.  If there's a tape
loaded, even a user tape of binary data, the VS3200 tries to boot from
MUA0.  Period.  If I let it get that far, it generates an error on MUA0
and I can't recover the drive (or sometimes the VS) without powering down
and up again!  (I know I can type "B XQ", but that does help if I'm
REBOOTing from a SET HOST session on another node...).

    Since this thing was bought diskless (and tapeless), I don't have the
various diagnostic tapes/diskettes referred to in the hardware manual (I'm
not sure they'd help anyway...).  On the VS2000, I can just type ">>> T
51" to set the boot device; similarly on the VS3100 from the menu.

    PLEASE, how can I set the default BOOT device to XQA0 on a VS3200!?

    Please reply by E-mail.

                         Thanks in advance, Ken
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|  Kenneth H. Fairfield         | Internet: Fairfield@Tpc.Slac.Stanford.Edu |
|  Stanford Linear              | DECnet:   45047::FAIRFIELD                |
|  Accelerator Center           | BITNET    Fairfield@SlacTpc               |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+