Repaired
Daphne has been repaired, floowing Hoff’s suggestions on ITRC. But it took some time:
$ SET BOOTBLOCK ddcuu:
The command applies to Integrity only; on Alpha is does start but when specifying “DKA0:” as the device it compians “Wrong arguments” . The HELP on the command states it’s Integrity only; It would be nicer if the program wasn’t available at all on Alpha, or would just output that it doen’t do anything on Alpha….Well, I have to signal the problem anyway, so this would be an addition.
RUN SYS$SYSTEM:SYS$SETBOOT
That’s allright, it asks for the architecture – Alpha in my case, and for the boot file – what would it be? APB.EXE – obviously, it’s in the ITRC thread as well. But the full spec is to be given..
RUN SYS$SYSTEM:WRITEBOOT looks like a wrapper – asking for the architecture (N on the first – that’s VAX and this isn’t) and, again, for the full spec of the boot file. Now I mounted DKA0 and searched the disk for APB.EXE and found it on DKA0:[SYS0.SYSCOMMON.SYSEXE] and so I specified that. Probably not the best answer, if not incorrrect, but this was accepted.
Now the system boots fine.
The first next thing after that was running SYS$SETBOOT again, using the defaults. Now it should be right 🙂
Next is putting a call at HP.