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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Daniel,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Does the output of:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> $ MC NCP SHOW CHAR NODE </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>GUINAN<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>Give any clue?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>What about:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'> $ DIR DUA0:[SYS14]/SIZE=ALL<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>Mark<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a name="_MailEndCompose"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></a></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><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 2:10 PM<br><b>To:</b> simh@trailing-edge.com<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Simh] Unable to locate boot file<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div id=divtagdefaultwrapper><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'>Thanks Mark,</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'>The system disk device name appears to be the same:</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'>Simulated MicroVAX 3900:</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'>$ show logical disk$vmsrl5</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'> "DISK$VMSRL5" = "ORION$DUA0:" (LNM$SYSTEM_TABLE)</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'>$ show dev d</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'>Device Device Error Volume Free Trans Mnt</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'>Name Status Count Label Blocks Count Cnt</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'>...</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'>ORION$DUA0: MOUNTED 0 VMSRL5 2508868 247 1</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>...<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>Physical VAX 6220:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'>$ show logical disk$vmsrl5</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'> "DISK$VMSRL5" = "ORION$DUA0:" (LNM$SYSTEM_TABLE)</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'>$ show dev d</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'>Device Device Error Volume Free Trans Mnt</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'>Name Status Count Label Blocks Count Cnt</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'>...</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'>ORION$DUA0: MOUNTED 0 VMSRL5 990411 253 1</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>...<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>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?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>Thanks again.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><hr size=3 width="98%" align=center></span></div><div id=divRplyFwdMsg><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'> Mark Pizzolato <<a href="mailto:Mark@infocomm.com">Mark@infocomm.com</a>><br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, June 20, 2016 3:28 PM<br><b>To:</b> Daniel Parrott; <a href="mailto:simh@trailing-edge.com">simh@trailing-edge.com</a><br><b>Subject:</b> RE: Unable to locate boot file</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><p style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Hi Daniel,</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>This is a good bug report.</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><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. </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></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)<o:p></o:p></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?<o:p></o:p></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?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Notice that you’re getting the load message for </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></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<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><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><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><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. </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>The output of:</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'> $ SHOW LOGICAL DISK$VMSRL5</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>and </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'> $ SHOW DEV D</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Will likely illuminate some relevant details. </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>-</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Mark</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'> Simh [<a href="mailto:simh-bounces@trailing-edge.com">mailto:simh-bounces@trailing-edge.com</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Daniel Parrott<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, June 20, 2016 1:16 PM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:simh@trailing-edge.com">simh@trailing-edge.com</a><br><b>Subject:</b> [Simh] Unable to locate boot file</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p style='background:white'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><div id=divtagdefaultwrapper><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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></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":<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>>>> b eza0<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>(BOOT/R5:0 EZA0)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'> 2..<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>-EZA0<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'> 1..0..<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></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)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>%VAXcluster-F-BADOPEN, unable to locate BOOT file<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>?06 HLT INST<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'> PC = 00007395<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>>>> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></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".<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></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:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>%%%%%%%%%%%% OPCOM 20-JUN-2016 15:10:06.58 %%%%%%%%<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>Message from user DECNET on ORION<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>DECnet event 0.3, automatic line service<o:p></o:p></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<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>Circuit QNA-0, Load, Requested, Node = 4.764 (GUINAN)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>File = DISK$VMSRL5:<SYS14.>, Operating system, Ethernet address = 08-00-2B-23-9A-F4<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>%%%%%%%%%%%% OPCOM 20-JUN-2016 15:10:11.58 %%%%%%%%<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>Message from user DECNET on ORION<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>DECnet event 0.3, automatic line service<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>From node 4.438 (ORION), 20-JUN-2016 15:10:06.75<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>Circuit QNA-0, Load, Successful, Node = 4.764 (GUINAN)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>File = DISK$VMSRL5:<SYS14.>, Operating system, Ethernet address = 08-00-2B-23-9A-F4<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></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<o:p></o:p></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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>My thoughts are that maybe:<o:p></o:p></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)<o:p></o:p></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?<o:p></o:p></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?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>Any ideas? Thanks in advance.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>