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