Re: DEC Alpha Bug Check Crash

2018-11-13 Thread Douglas Taylor via cctalk
On 11/12/2018 1:30 PM, Patrick Finnegan via cctalk wrote: On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 12:22 PM Jon Elson via cctalk wrote: On 11/11/2018 11:36 PM, Douglas Taylor via cctalk wrote: This is most likely correct. I re-installed the OS on a different SD card/SCSI2SD device and got a successful

Re: DEC Alpha Bug Check Crash

2018-11-12 Thread Patrick Finnegan via cctalk
On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 12:22 PM Jon Elson via cctalk wrote: > > On 11/11/2018 11:36 PM, Douglas Taylor via cctalk wrote: > > > > This is most likely correct. I re-installed the OS on a > > different SD card/SCSI2SD device and got a successful > > graphics boot up. Do SD cards drop bits or go

Re: DEC Alpha Bug Check Crash

2018-11-12 Thread Jon Elson via cctalk
On 11/11/2018 11:36 PM, Douglas Taylor via cctalk wrote: This is most likely correct. I re-installed the OS on a different SD card/SCSI2SD device and got a successful graphics boot up. Do SD cards drop bits or go bad? UGH! Yes, they can. It SHOULD cause a device parity error, but I

Re: DEC Alpha Bug Check Crash

2018-11-12 Thread Christian Corti via cctalk
On Mon, 12 Nov 2018, Douglas Taylor wrote: This is most likely correct.  I re-installed the OS on a different SD card/SCSI2SD device and got a successful graphics boot up.  Do SD cards drop bits or go bad? Yes, very easily. That is why I absolutely dislike solutions based on SD cards (or on

Re: DEC Alpha Bug Check Crash

2018-11-11 Thread Douglas Taylor via cctalk
On 11/10/2018 6:17 AM, Peter Coghlan via cctalk wrote: It maybe that the DECW$Config.exe image is bad, since that is where the bugcheck always occurs.  Although this is confusing because it did successfully boot in console mode previously. While it's not impossible, I doubt the problem is

Re: DEC Alpha Bug Check Crash

2018-11-10 Thread Peter Coghlan via cctalk
It maybe that the DECW$Config.exe image is bad, since that is where the bugcheck always occurs.  Although this is confusing because it did successfully boot in console mode previously. While it's not impossible, I doubt the problem is in the DECW$Config.exe image. I think it is more

Re: DEC Alpha Bug Check Crash

2018-11-09 Thread Douglas Taylor via cctalk
On 11/9/2018 12:59 PM, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote: On 11/08/2018 11:09 PM, Douglas Taylor via cctalk wrote: I hadn't started this DEC Alpha 3000-300 since last summer, and booted it up so I could load the new PAK's the other day. The result was that it completes almost the entire OpenVMS

Re: DEC Alpha Bug Check Crash

2018-11-09 Thread Jon Elson via cctalk
On 11/09/2018 05:38 PM, Peter Coghlan via cctalk wrote: I hadn't started this DEC Alpha 3000-300 since last summer, and booted it up so I could load the new PAK's the other day. The result was that it completes almost the entire OpenVMS startup, but then crashes with the following:

Re: DEC Alpha Bug Check Crash

2018-11-09 Thread Peter Coghlan via cctalk
I hadn't started this DEC Alpha 3000-300 since last summer, and booted it up so I could load the new PAK's the other day. The result was that it completes almost the entire OpenVMS startup, but then crashes with the following: %SET-I-INTSET, login interactive limit = 64, current interactive

Re: DEC Alpha Bug Check Crash

2018-11-09 Thread Jon Elson via cctalk
On 11/08/2018 11:09 PM, Douglas Taylor via cctalk wrote: I hadn't started this DEC Alpha 3000-300 since last summer, and booted it up so I could load the new PAK's the other day. The result was that it completes almost the entire OpenVMS startup, but then crashes with the following:

DEC Alpha Bug Check Crash

2018-11-08 Thread Douglas Taylor via cctalk
I hadn't started this DEC Alpha 3000-300 since last summer, and booted it up so I could load the new PAK's the other day. The result was that it completes almost the entire OpenVMS startup, but then crashes with the following: %SET-I-INTSET, login interactive limit = 64, current interactive