3 Dec
2012
3 Dec
'12
5:39 a.m.
On Sunday (12/02/2012 at 08:00PM -0700), Eric Smith wrote:
David Riley wrote:
I can second that. Trivial bit image copy with 'dd'.
Of course you dd it to the raw device, /dev/sdb, /dev/sdc, etc. not one
of the partitions (ie, not /dev/sdb1, /dev/sdb2, etc).
I've got an ATAPI ZIP drive in a Linux box for making the copies and
then a pair of SCSI ZIP on the CQD controller in my 11/34. Works great.
I have also booted XXDP from CDROM attached to this CQD controller but
that is a really, really slow solution.
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Chris Elmquist
I have a bootable 100MB RSX-11M image in SIMH
that I'd like to blast onto a Zip disk and boot through my
CQD-220. I'm running a build on SIMH that's essentially
identical to my machine, so it should be straightforward,
but when I try to boot my disk, I get a "not bootable"
response from the ROM (the activity light on the Zip
drive does flash momentarily, so I know something is
going on, but it doesn't look like it's taking enough time
to actually seek anything (and when I boot through the
bootstrap provided by the CQD-220 ROM, I get a HALT
at 000002, which tells me it's probably getting all zeroes).
How are you transferring the image to the ZIP? With Linux, I can dd
an image created with E11 to the ZIP, and it boots fine with a CQD.