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From: zyg@geovision.UUCP (Zygmunt Wiercioch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Booting MVAXII from Secondary Device
Message-ID: <140@geovision.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 13-Aug-87 14:23:41 EDT
Article-I.D.: geovisio.140
Posted: Thu Aug 13 14:23:41 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 16-Aug-87 08:52:50 EDT
References: <292@larry.UUCP>
Reply-To: zyg@geovision.UUCP (Zygmunt Wiercioch)
Organization: Geovision Corporation, Ottawa, Canada
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In article <292@larry.UUCP> cathy@larry.UUCP (Cathy Accettura) writes:
>We have a MVAXII and would like to boot from a secondary
>device (disk). The address of the disk we normally boot from is 172150
>and this secondary disk is configured at 160334.
>Can any one point me in the proper direction on this.

We have tried do something similar (Ultrix on one, VMS on another) and were 
unable to do it.  The information we got from DEC and SI was that a mVAX 
will not boot from a secondary disk controller.  You can boot from a second 
disk (b dua1), but the disk has to be on the primary controller.

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 Zygmunt Wiercioch    UUCP: ...!utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!cognos!geovision!zyg