[comp.sys.dec] Booting a DECsystem 5000

osm@ox.com (Owen Scott Medd) (09/27/90)

Well, we have a nice shiny DECsystem 5000 in for evaluation.  It's a brand
new machine, so I said "sure, we'll load Ultrix ourselves".

After hooking up the console (gee, why did they hide the instructions for
doing that off in some dinky little side manual instead of in the main
instructions?), I plunked my Ultrix 4.0 TK50 in the drive and did a
"boot -f tz(0,5)".  Hmmm, what's this error message?

?STX: boot [many options, none of them -f]

But my 4.0 docs *and* the DEC*station* 5000 documentation say to boot this
way!

The system is only here till tomorrow afternoon.

Help!

mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum) (09/27/90)

In article <1990Sep26.183304.14449@ox.com> osm@ox.com (Owen Scott Medd) writes:
>?STX: boot [many options, none of them -f]

in Rev 5.3C firmware (latest I've seen), some commands have changed.

        boot -f tz(0,5)
         is now
        boot 5/tz5
  
        setenv bootpath rz(0,0,0)vmunix
         is now
        setenv boot "5/rz0/vmunix -a"
 
a document detailing this is available for FTP from decuac in:
~ftp/public/postscript/DS5000_console_command_comparison.ps

mjr.

vixie@wrl.dec.com (Paul Vixie) (09/27/90)

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	<vixie@wrl.dec.com>
Palo Alto, California		...!decwrl!vixie

osm@ox.com (Owen Scott Medd) (09/27/90)

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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