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<p><span style="font-family: Cambria,serif;">Thanks Mark,</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Cambria,serif;">The system disk device name appears to be the same:</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Cambria,serif;">Simulated MicroVAX 3900:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Cambria,serif;">------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>
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<p><span style="font-family: Cambria,serif;">$ show logical disk$vmsrl5</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Cambria,serif;"> "DISK$VMSRL5" = "ORION$DUA0:" (LNM$SYSTEM_TABLE)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Cambria,serif;">$ show dev d</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: "Courier New",monospace;"><span style="font-family: Cambria,serif;">Device </span><span style="font-family: Cambria,serif;"> Device Error Volume Free Trans Mnt</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Courier New",monospace;"><span style="font-family: Cambria,serif;">Name Status
</span><span style="font-family: Cambria,serif;">Count Label Blocks Count Cnt</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Courier New",monospace;"><span style="font-family: Cambria,serif;">...<br>
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<p><span style="font-family: "Courier New",monospace;"><span style="font-family: Cambria,serif;">ORION$DUA0: MOUNTED 0 VMSRL5 2508868 247 1</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Courier New",monospace;"><span style="font-family: Cambria,serif;"></span></span>...</p>
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<p>Physical VAX 6220:</p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Cambria,serif;">$ show logical disk$vmsrl5</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Cambria,serif;"> "DISK$VMSRL5" = "ORION$DUA0:" (LNM$SYSTEM_TABLE)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Cambria,serif;">$ show dev d</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: "Courier New",monospace;"><span style="font-family: Cambria,serif;">Device </span><span style="font-family: Cambria,serif;"> Device Error Volume Free Trans Mnt</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Courier New",monospace;"><span style="font-family: Cambria,serif;">Name Status
</span><span style="font-family: Cambria,serif;">Count Label Blocks Count Cnt</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Courier New",monospace;"><span style="font-family: Cambria,serif;">...<br>
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<p><span style="font-family: "Courier New",monospace;"><span style="font-family: Cambria,serif;">ORION$DUA0: MOUNTED 0 VMSRL5 990411 253 1</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Courier New",monospace;"><span style="font-family: Cambria,serif;"></span></span>...</p>
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<p>I agree that there may be some additional difference between the two (simulated vs physical) but I am not sure where else to look. Any other ideas?</p>
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<p>Thanks again.<br>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000" face="Calibri, sans-serif"><b>From:</b> Mark Pizzolato <Mark@infocomm.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, June 20, 2016 3:28 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Daniel Parrott; simh@trailing-edge.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: Unable to locate boot file</font>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F497D">Hi Daniel,</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F497D">This is a good bug report.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F497D">I think that the problem you are having now is very much related to the problems you’ve already solved.
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F497D"> </span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">> 1) there is some other config script that needs to be run when using disk images from one VAX system (physical 6220) to another (simulated MicroVAX 3900)</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">> 2) SimH on Windows 8 does not really support MOP or DECserver stuff?</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">> 3) there is some permissions issue with the boot file (sysboot.exe?), but since it is off a disk image (which should be a one-to-one exact copy), how so?</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F497D"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F497D">Notice that you’re getting the load message for
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">File = DISK$VMSRL5:<SYS14.>, Operating system, Ethernet address = 08-00-2B-23-9A-F4</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F497D">I suspect that the logical name
</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">DISK$VMSRL5 may not be consistently defined.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F497D">The system disk device name on the MicroVAX 3900 may have changed from what it was on the original 6220.
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">The output of:</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black"> $ SHOW LOGICAL DISK$VMSRL5</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">and </span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black"> $ SHOW DEV D</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F497D">Will likely illuminate some relevant details.
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<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Simh [mailto:simh-bounces@trailing-edge.com]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Daniel Parrott<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, June 20, 2016 1:16 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> simh@trailing-edge.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Simh] Unable to locate boot file</span></p>
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">I have two physical systems, a VAX 6220 and a VAX 4000-300. The latter system is set up to do a network bootstrap off the 6220 using an EZA0 network device.</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black"> </span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">First, using vddriver and backup/image, I generated and retrieved disk images of the RA92 drives from the 6220. With these disk images, and specifying MicroVAX 3900 on
the SimH simulator, I am able to boot up an emulated version of the 6220 on my laptop. So far so good.</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black"> </span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">My first goal is to get the physical VAX 4000-300 to do its network bootstrap off the emulated 6220 rather than the physical 6220. By the way, I am running SimH 4.0 on
Windows 8, it seems to work OK.</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black"> </span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">The first problem I ran into was that the simulator presents a different network adapter to the emulated 6220 than it is accustomed to seeing. It typically sees a "BNA-0"
interface, but the simulator uses "QNA-0", as derived from the XQA0 device. So, I found out that I needed to run netconfig.com. When I ran that script, it brought the circuit online.</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black"> </span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">But when I tried to do network boot of the physical VAX 4000-300 off the emulated 6220, it kept saying 'retrying network bootstrap'. So evidently that was not sufficient.
Then I came to discover that the 6220 uses DECserver, and there is a dsvconfig.com script. Once again, because the simulator presented a different network device than the 6220 was accustomed to seeing, the configuration had to be updated. So okay, I ran
the dsvconfig.com script, and made it aware of the fact that it is now a "QNA-0" device rather than a "BNA-0" device.</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black"> </span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">So after running both netconfig.com and dsvconfig.com on the emulated 6220, the physical 4000-300 no longer says "retrying network bootstrap". Instead it now appears to
be able to communicate, but it says "unable to locate boot file":</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black"> </span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">>>> b eza0</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">(BOOT/R5:0 EZA0)</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black"> </span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black"> 2..</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">-EZA0</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black"> 1..0..</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black"> </span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">%VAXcluster-I-SYSLOAD, system loaded from node ORION (AA-00-04-00-B6-11)</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black"> </span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">%VAXcluster-F-BADOPEN, unable to locate BOOT file</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">?06 HLT INST</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black"> PC = 00007395</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">>>> </span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black"> </span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">Using Wireshark, I captured some of the packets to try to glean some more details, and I see messages like "VAXcluster-F-NOSUCHDEV, nonexistent drive" and "VAXcluster-F-READERR,
I/O error reading boot file".</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black"> </span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">I am really stumped on this one because basically the disk images should be one-to-one copies of what is on the physical VAX 6220, so other than having to tell it that it
has a different network adapter (QNA-0 rather than BNA-0), why shouldn't it just work? Does SimH not support MOP or DECserver? I did check, and the sysboot.exe file is present in dua0:[sys14.syscommon.sysexe], and sys14 is the directory for the VAX 4000-300
to use for its network boot. So I believe the boot file is available.</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black"> </span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">By the way, the VAX 6220 is running VMS 5.5-2H. And I have set VAXCLUSTER to 2.</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black"> </span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">Oh and one more thing, when the 4000-300 fails to boot, on the simulator side of things I see the following:</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black"> </span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">%%%%%%%%%%%% OPCOM 20-JUN-2016 15:10:06.58 %%%%%%%%</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">Message from user DECNET on ORION</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">DECnet event 0.3, automatic line service</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">From node 4.438 (ORION), 20-JUN-2016 15:10:06.58</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">Circuit QNA-0, Load, Requested, Node = 4.764 (GUINAN)</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">File = DISK$VMSRL5:<SYS14.>, Operating system, Ethernet address = 08-00-2B-23-9A-F4</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black"> </span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">%%%%%%%%%%%% OPCOM 20-JUN-2016 15:10:11.58 %%%%%%%%</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">Message from user DECNET on ORION</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">DECnet event 0.3, automatic line service</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">From node 4.438 (ORION), 20-JUN-2016 15:10:06.75</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">Circuit QNA-0, Load, Successful, Node = 4.764 (GUINAN)</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">File = DISK$VMSRL5:<SYS14.>, Operating system, Ethernet address = 08-00-2B-23-9A-F4</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black"> </span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt; background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">%PEA0, Port has Closed Virtual Circuit - REMOTE NODE GUINAN</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">So it almost looks like it has done a successful load of the system software to the 4000-300, but then the port closes presumably due to not being able to locate the boot
file.</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black"> </span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">My thoughts are that maybe:</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">1) there is some other config script that needs to be run when using disk images from one VAX system (physical 6220) to another (simulated MicroVAX 3900)</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">2) SimH on Windows 8 does not really support MOP or DECserver stuff?</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">3) there is some permissions issue with the boot file (sysboot.exe?), but since it is off a disk image (which should be a one-to-one exact copy), how so?</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black"> </span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">Any ideas? Thanks in advance.</span></p>
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