Message-ID: <38C3C411.75CA84A2@usm.uni-muenchen.de> Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 15:43:07 +0100 From: Oleg Gusev <oleg@usm.uni-muenchen.de> Subject: Re: [suse-axp] Digital 3305 Install Problems
Craig Allen wrote:
>
> I have a Digital 3305R Server 500Mhz, 256Mb RAM (NT White Box Server)
>
> I have setup my boot options via SRM I get the follow error below:
>
> The boot disk loads Ok and the ramdisk starts to load but then I get the
> following error:
>
> Halted CPU 0
> Halt Code = 5
> Halt instruction executed
> PC = fffff0000310040
>
Try to do
set srm_boot true
at console prompt. It helped some people.
The post from redhat-axp is attached.
> Any ideas. I'm thinking of trading in the DEC for a Intel box, so much
> easier and painless.
>
But also much less fun :))
Oleg.
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: There are rumours that if you switch the 5300 to SRM,
: edit the nvram and add a line
: 10 set srm_boot true
: That when you boot the 5300 the SRM will choose NOT to
: 'poison' the HWRPB and will identify itself with the system
: type of an AS 1200. This is, of course, not supported.
: However, it is the way I run Hobbyist OpenVMS on my Digital Server
: 3305. Not that the system MUST be set to reset on boot, otherwise
: the environment variable doesn't get set quite right and it
: doesn't work.
: Eric Ebinger
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