<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530628110306_19407"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530628110306_19409" role="presentation" style="" tabindex="0"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530628110306_19410"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530628110306_19411"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530628110306_19412"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530628110306_19413" style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530628110306_19414">I'm currently running OpenVMS 073.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530628110306_19415"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530628110306_19416"></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530628110306_19417">I did this a week ago on a different machine (not accessable today) and it worked fine.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530628110306_19418" dir="ltr">I have a bootable vms073.dsk image, and I created two empty files per below to be initialized.<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530628110306_19419"></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530628110306_19420" dir="ltr">in vax.ini I had:</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530628110306_19421" dir="ltr">attach RQ0 vms073.dsk<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530628110306_19422"></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530628110306_19423" dir="ltr">attach RQ3 rx50.dsk</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530628110306_19424" dir="ltr">attach RL0 rl01.dsk</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530628110306_19425" dir="ltr"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530628110306_19426"></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530628110306_19427" dir="ltr">Then started emulate and booted CPU followed by:<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530628110306_19428"></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530628110306_19429" dir="ltr">b DUA0</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530628110306_19430" dir="ltr">works fine, and I log in.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530628110306_19431" dir="ltr"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530628110306_19432"></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530628110306_19433" dir="ltr">last week I believe I just did following to create bare disk image files just containing system files:</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530628110306_19434" dir="ltr">init DUA3: VRX50</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530628110306_19435" dir="ltr">init DLA0: VRL01</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530628110306_19436" dir="ltr"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530628110306_19437"></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530628110306_19438" dir="ltr">This week the init fails, and I am told "%INIT-F-MEDOFL, medium is offline"</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530628110306_19439" dir="ltr"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530628110306_19440"></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530628110306_19441" dir="ltr">but the result for "sh dev" for these devices is:</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530628110306_19442" dir="ltr">SIMH1$DUA3: Online 0<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530628110306_19443">SIMH1$DLA0: Online 0</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530628110306_19444" dir="ltr"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530628110306_19445"></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530628110306_19446" dir="ltr">I am puzzled as to why this doesn't work now. What am I missing here?</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530628110306_19447" dir="ltr">Thanks in advance.<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530628110306_19448"></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530628110306_19449" dir="ltr"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530628110306_19450"></div></div></div></div></div></div> </div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530628110306_19451"> </div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530628110306_19452"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530628110306_19453"></span></div> </div></body></html>