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<p>Hello Jean-Claude,</p>
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<p>In my vax.ini file:</p>
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<p><span style="font-family: "Courier New",monospace;">set xq enabled</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Courier New",monospace;">set xq mac=AA-00-04-00-B6-11</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Courier New",monospace;">set xq type=delqa</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Courier New",monospace;">attach xq0 eth0</span></p>
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<p>And from the simulator:</p>
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<p>$ show dev xq</p>
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<p><span style="font-family: "Courier New",monospace;">Device Device Error</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Courier New",monospace;">Name Status Count</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Courier New",monospace;">XQA0: Online 0</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Courier New",monospace;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",monospace;">XQA1: Online 0</span><br>
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Courier New",monospace;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",monospace;">XQA2: Online 0</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Courier New",monospace;">XQA3: Online 0</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Courier New",monospace;">XQA4: Online 0</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Courier New",monospace;">XQA5: Online 0</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Courier New",monospace;">XQA6: Online 0</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Courier New",monospace;">XQA7: Online 0</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Courier New",monospace;">XQA8: Online 0</span></p>
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<p>Thanks,</p>
<p>Daniel<br>
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, June 20, 2016 11:33 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Daniel Parrott<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Simh] Unable to locate boot file</font>
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<div><font face="sans-serif" size="2">Hello, Daniel</font> <br>
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<font face="sans-serif" size="2">How many network interfaces have you defined in your emulated VAX configuration ?</font>
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<font color="#5f5f5f" face="sans-serif" size="1">From: </font><font face="sans-serif" size="1">Daniel Parrott <danielthegreat@msn.com></font>
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<font color="#5f5f5f" face="sans-serif" size="1">To: </font><font face="sans-serif" size="1">"simh@trailing-edge.com" <simh@trailing-edge.com></font>
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<font color="#5f5f5f" face="sans-serif" size="1">Date: </font><font face="sans-serif" size="1">20/06/2016 22:16</font>
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<font color="#5f5f5f" face="sans-serif" size="1">Subject: </font><font face="sans-serif" size="1">[Simh] Unable to locate boot file</font>
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<font color="#5f5f5f" face="sans-serif" size="1">Sent by: </font><font face="sans-serif" size="1">"Simh" <simh-bounces@trailing-edge.com></font>
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<font face="Calibri" size="3">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.</font>
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<font face="Calibri" size="3">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.</font> <br>
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<font face="Calibri" size="3">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.</font>
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<font face="Calibri" size="3">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.</font>
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<font face="Calibri" size="3">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.</font> <br>
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<font face="Calibri" size="3">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":</font> <br>
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<font face="Calibri" size="3">>>> b eza0</font> <br>
<font face="Calibri" size="3">(BOOT/R5:0 EZA0)</font> <br>
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<font face="Calibri" size="3"> 2..</font> <br>
<font face="Calibri" size="3">-EZA0</font> <br>
<font face="Calibri" size="3"> 1..0..</font> <br>
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<font face="Calibri" size="3">%VAXcluster-I-SYSLOAD, system loaded from node ORION (AA-00-04-00-B6-11)</font>
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<font face="Calibri" size="3">%VAXcluster-F-BADOPEN, unable to locate BOOT file</font>
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<font face="Calibri" size="3">?06 HLT INST</font> <br>
<font face="Calibri" size="3"> PC = 00007395</font> <br>
<font face="Calibri" size="3">>>></font> <br>
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<font face="Calibri" size="3">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".</font>
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<font face="Calibri" size="3">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.</font> <br>
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<font face="Calibri" size="3">By the way, the VAX 6220 is running VMS 5.5-2H. And I have set VAXCLUSTER to 2.</font>
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<font face="Calibri" size="3">Oh and one more thing, when the 4000-300 fails to boot, on the simulator side of things I see the following:</font>
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<font face="Calibri" size="3">%%%%%%%%%%%% OPCOM 20-JUN-2016 15:10:06.58 %%%%%%%%</font>
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<font face="Calibri" size="3">Message from user DECNET on ORION</font> <br>
<font face="Calibri" size="3">DECnet event 0.3, automatic line service</font> <br>
<font face="Calibri" size="3">From node 4.438 (ORION), 20-JUN-2016 15:10:06.58</font>
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<font face="Calibri" size="3">Circuit QNA-0, Load, Requested, Node = 4.764 (GUINAN)</font>
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<font face="Calibri" size="3">File = DISK$VMSRL5:<SYS14.>, Operating system, Ethernet address = 08-00-2B-23-9A-F4</font>
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<font face="Calibri" size="3">%%%%%%%%%%%% OPCOM 20-JUN-2016 15:10:11.58 %%%%%%%%</font>
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<font face="Calibri" size="3">Message from user DECNET on ORION</font> <br>
<font face="Calibri" size="3">DECnet event 0.3, automatic line service</font> <br>
<font face="Calibri" size="3">From node 4.438 (ORION), 20-JUN-2016 15:10:06.75</font>
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<font face="Calibri" size="3">Circuit QNA-0, Load, Successful, Node = 4.764 (GUINAN)</font>
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<font face="Calibri" size="3">File = DISK$VMSRL5:<SYS14.>, Operating system, Ethernet address = 08-00-2B-23-9A-F4</font>
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<font face="Calibri" size="3">%PEA0, Port has Closed Virtual Circuit - REMOTE NODE GUINAN<br>
</font><br>
<font face="Calibri" size="3">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.</font>
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<font face="Calibri" size="3">My thoughts are that maybe:</font> <br>
<font face="Calibri" size="3">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)</font>
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<font face="Calibri" size="3">2) SimH on Windows 8 does not really support MOP or DECserver stuff?</font>
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<font face="Calibri" size="3">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?</font>
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