When I type

">>> b eza0"

it goes

-EZA0
 85 RESET SYS
 84 FAIL
 83 BOOT SYS

and then tries to boot from the harddisk which does not have an OS loaded yet.

This is with the NetBSD-1.6 bootstrap from

ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.6/vax/installation/netboot/boot

--- Antonio Carlini <arcarlini@iee.org> wrote:
> > Seems there is software on this planet which can fix this 
> > problem. The question is how to get a copy.
> 
> There are firmware updates available for most of
> the MicroVAXes and VAXstations and large VAXes which
> incorporate flash memory. The VAX 7000 updates are
> freely available from DEC/COMPAQ/HP (pick the nom-du-jour).
> The rest are not. I asked about getting the others (and
> ROM images for the older ones) on the Freeware CD. That's
> obviously not happened yet and may never happen. Odd,
> since (AFAIK) *all* the Alpha firmware updates are on the
> Alpha Firmware CD and on the Web.
> 
> Of the last two people posting that they had this problem,
> one is the one you quoted, and he worked on a site paying
> for DEC support and was able to get his machine upgraded
> with the latest and greatest. The other person had his problem
> reportedly fixed "off-list" IIRC.
> 
> Do you actually have a problem (I've not followed the thread
> too closely)?
> 
> Antonio
> 
>  
> -- 
> 
> ---------------
> Antonio Carlini             arcarlini@iee.org
> 
> 


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