Roger Ivie wrote:
> I don't know if this is the problem, but I once found out the 
> hard way that the flash on the 4000/90 is configured to be written.

I don't have the manuals in front of me, but
all of the later console-in-flash machines
I came across (admittedly mostly
MicroVAXes and not VAXstations) had a
jumper you had to move to allow the
console flash to be reprogrammed.

> What really got me in trouble, though, was when I fixed it. I wrote

If you totally hosed the console then you
had to do what you did. Otherwise, the console
code could be upgraded in situ by
MOP booting a special image over the network
(or by running the image directly on the
machine under OpenVMS).

Antonio