Hello Jean-Claude,
In my vax.ini file: set xq enabled set xq mac=AA-00-04-00-B6-11 set xq type=delqa attach xq0 eth0 And from the simulator: $ show dev xq Device Device Error Name Status Count XQA0: Online 0 XQA1: Online 0 XQA2: Online 0 XQA3: Online 0 XQA4: Online 0 XQA5: Online 0 XQA6: Online 0 XQA7: Online 0 XQA8: Online 0 Thanks, Daniel ________________________________ From: Jean-Claude Parel <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, June 20, 2016 11:33 PM To: Daniel Parrott Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Simh] Unable to locate boot file Hello, Daniel How many network interfaces have you defined in your emulated VAX configuration ? Cordialement/Regards ________________________________ Jean-Claude Parel 21, Chemin De La Sauvegarde [cid:_1_08FC047408F1A59000173A45C1257FD9] OpenVMS Architect Ecully, 69132 458601 France Global Business Services Phone: +33-4-7218-4095 Home: +33-4-7558-3550 Mobile: +33-6.7171.0434 e-mail: [email protected] From: Daniel Parrott <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Date: 20/06/2016 22:16 Subject: [Simh] Unable to locate boot file Sent by: "Simh" <[email protected]> ________________________________ 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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": >>> b eza0 (BOOT/R5:0 EZA0) 2.. -EZA0 1..0.. %VAXcluster-I-SYSLOAD, system loaded from node ORION (AA-00-04-00-B6-11) %VAXcluster-F-BADOPEN, unable to locate BOOT file ?06 HLT INST PC = 00007395 >>> 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". 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. By the way, the VAX 6220 is running VMS 5.5-2H. And I have set VAXCLUSTER to 2. Oh and one more thing, when the 4000-300 fails to boot, on the simulator side of things I see the following: %%%%%%%%%%%% OPCOM 20-JUN-2016 15:10:06.58 %%%%%%%% Message from user DECNET on ORION DECnet event 0.3, automatic line service >From node 4.438 (ORION), 20-JUN-2016 15:10:06.58 Circuit QNA-0, Load, Requested, Node = 4.764 (GUINAN) File = DISK$VMSRL5:<SYS14.>, Operating system, Ethernet address = 08-00-2B-23-9A-F4 %%%%%%%%%%%% OPCOM 20-JUN-2016 15:10:11.58 %%%%%%%% Message from user DECNET on ORION DECnet event 0.3, automatic line service >From node 4.438 (ORION), 20-JUN-2016 15:10:06.75 Circuit QNA-0, Load, Successful, Node = 4.764 (GUINAN) File = DISK$VMSRL5:<SYS14.>, Operating system, Ethernet address = 08-00-2B-23-9A-F4 %PEA0, Port has Closed Virtual Circuit - REMOTE NODE GUINAN 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. My thoughts are that maybe: 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) 2) SimH on Windows 8 does not really support MOP or DECserver stuff? 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? Any ideas? Thanks in advance._______________________________________________ Simh mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh Simh Info Page - mailman.trailing-edge.com<http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh> mailman.trailing-edge.com This list is for user discussion of issues related to simh. To see the collection of prior postings to the list, visit the Simh Archives. 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