Which RT-11 for an 11/03

Paul Koning paulkoning at comcast.net
Thu Mar 10 14:08:22 CST 2016


> On Mar 10, 2016, at 2:54 PM, Pete Turnbull <pete at dunnington.plus.com> wrote:
> 
> On 10/03/2016 19:28, Richard Cini wrote:
>> Thanks Mattis. The system in question has 32kw of memory and it does
>> pass the memory test.
>> 
>> I have not tried to boot the resulting DD image on SIMH but the
>> original RK image does boot.
>> 
>> I feel I'm close but I'm missing something. I may try 5.3 instead.
> 
> I've got various RX01, RX02, RL01 and RL02 disks with RT-11 v2, 4.0 and 5.2, 5.3, 5.4 and 5.7 and run them on real hardware.  It's a long time since I've run v2, but the rest all run on my 11/73 as far as I remember.  It may depend on the exact config (SYSGEN) but it certainly won't work unless you have exactly the right boot block on the media.

V2 doesn't have sysgen.  But yes, the boot block is device specific (at least in the early versions, I don't have experience with the later ones).  You can use PIP to write a boot block of your choosing.

	paul




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