snoopy@ecrcvax.UUCP (Sebastian Schmitz) (03/11/86)
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Dear Net,
a problem again.
The situation: MicroVAX2 with 2MB and ULTRIX 1.1 and two
Fujitsu 300MB "mini-eagles".
I have configured the ULTRIX to properly handle the new drives
and I can merrily copy files and filesystems to and fro, mount
and dismount at leisure.
The problem arises when I want to boot the system from the new
eagles. The bootstrap produces some message like:
>>>B DUB3
dev ra: dev offlin
ra: open error
Needless to say the device is online, the discs are up,
the boot code was installed with mkfs, and a proper vmunix
is sitting in the root partition of the ra3 disc.
So what is happening ? The controller is an Emulex QD32 and
it is properly set up, as far as we can tell.
I'm getting fed up slowly: all the stuff that doesn't work is
the other-vendor stuff.
Sigh. Please help.
Love,
Seb
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...\!mcvax\!unido\!ecrcvax\!snoopy /* N.B. valid csh address */sob@talcott.UUCP (Scott O Bradner) (03/14/86)
i booted our uvaxII with the QD32 this am.
after getting the same sort or error mesages ( OFF LINE ... ) & a few
calls to the emulex "hot" line, here is the info.
main problem:
microvaxen can ONLY boot from controller 0.
i pulled the dec controller, made the QD32 controller 0 & all went well.
( btw, the only boot block i could get to work was the one on the dec
rd53 disk dd'ed to the eagle while the QD32 was still setup as controller
1 )
scott bradner
harvard university
sob@harvard.{uucp,arpa,csnet,harvard.edu}