Re: DS10: "failed to load execlet"?

On Nov 30, 1:11 am, wins...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Alan Winston -
SSRL Central Computing) wrote:
VMSers --

So I have a DS10 that I bought from Island and left in a box for
months. (We foolishly bought it without a video card, and then I was
fussing with an unsupported old card for too long, and now I have a
nice ATI card that succeeds in driving a VGA display with the
console.) Any warranty is already over.

Console software is 7.2-1 with a 2006 date.

The CD drive reports itself as CD-224E 9.9A and looks like the OEM
drive.

When I attempt to boot from the CD (dqbo) it sees a boot block,
reports reading 1226 blocks from dqb0.0.1.13.0, goes through to
setting affinity, reports jumping to bootstrap code, and then
%SYSBOOT-E-LDFAIL, failed to load execlet, status = 00000054

What's going on here? Do I have a CD drive problem? A CPU problem?
A duff copy of the OS? How do I tell?

(If I need to MOP boot this puppy in order to be able to tell, can
somebody point me to a step-by-step guide? I've never done MOP for
anything but terminal servers and Xterms, and it's been a long time.)

Thanks,

-- Alan

Alan,

First, I would recommend doing some fundamentals.

Since the machine was shipped from Georgia to California, I would do
two things:

- I would disconnect and re-connect each of the cables relating to the
CDROM
- I would bootstrap a different copy of the any usable version of the
standalone CDROM
- I would invest in a call to Island, with an explanation of your
situation. I would not presume that they will not assist you.

I would suspect dirt, a disconnected cable, or some other plebeian
problem before I went on to the more exotics.

- Bob Gezelter, http://www.rlgsc.com
.

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