Alejandro,

Just for chuckles, you might try

SHOW MEM

to see how much memory you have installed

SHOW DEV 

to see what disk drives and other equipment are there.

SHOW ETHER 

should agree with what's taped on your ethernet card

BOOT DUA0

may boot VMS...

Doug



On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Alejandro Arrieta wrote:

> Hi all.
> 
> Today i went to the storage room from the CS department,
> and search for gysmos for the Vax. Im now full of dust :-P
> What i found was:
> AUI extender cable (digital)
> coaxial cable, terminators and a T (digital)
> 2 console cables (like rj11, digital)
> a little box to connect a cable to a Serial Terminal (digital)
> a white box with Centronic 36 pins in one side, and 8 Vax terminal
> connector on the other (like rj11, digital)
> With these things and a Wyse Terminal
> i can see the boot messages from the Vax!!!! :-)))))
> I put a transceiver from a IPX to the AUI extender to try after lunch
> netbooting :-))))
> 
> Here i write what the boot messages are:
> 
> KA640-A V5.3, VMB 2.7
> Performing normal system test.
> 41..40..39..38..37..36..35..34..33..32..31..30..29..28..27..26..
> 25..24..23..22..21..20..19..18..17..16..15..14..13..12..11..10..
> 09..08..07..06..05..04..03..
> Test completed
> Loading system software.
> (BOOT/R5:0 ESA0)
> 
> 
> 
> 2..
> -ESA0
> Retrying network bootstrap
> 
> 
> -------No more boot messages------
> If i press halt button
> 
> ?02 EXT HLT
>         PC = 00000450
> Failure.
> >>>
> 
> -----------------------------------
> 
> 
> If someone has another advice before i start trying to
> netbbot, please send it.
> If someone has interest i will take pictures off all accesories
> and from the MicroVax3300 with a Mavica.
> 
> Bye
> 
> Alejandro Arrieta Rios
> aarrieta@inf.utfsm.cl
>