21 Mar
2000
21 Mar
'00
11:20 a.m.
On Tue, 21 Mar 2000 healyzh(a)aracnet.com wrote:
No, with the bootroms installed I can boot from the * prompt (ex: * DY
[enter]. I was just playing with it with cpu/mem/slu/peripheral cards
only.
I should have
been a little more specific with my description. I have the
peripheral boards sitting around me and am just playing with one at a time
for fun. I do have a bootable system already, but I'm just playing with
them for the fun/experience...
OK, I'm still a little confused. Do you have Boot ROMs in the system,
or even when it's put together in the 'bootable order', do you still
have to type in the bootstrap? > I double checked to make sure that
they had unique CSR > assignments...besides the SLU, will the system
expect any of the > peripherals to have standard addresses/vectors?
The bootstrap expects to be seeing the controller at a specific address.
I believe a MSCP disk should be at 1772150 for the first controller (I'm not
at home, so this is from memory, and my memory stinks).
I'll check at home; I think I have the adress for the first MSCP
controller somewhere myself...let me check that one when I get home.
I'll try to push the bootstrap via serial
tonight, though I'm using a WYSE
60 and it's pretty easy to type it out.
I've typed the TMSCP bootstrap a few to many times for my taste. Though now
I have a board in the system that included TMSCP support. This is the only
reason I'd use a PC as a console. Side note:
does anyone know how to send a plain LF with a WYSE 60, without
changing the personality to a different terminal? My setup cycles through
like this for assigning the Enter key: CR...CRLF...CR...TAB...I got around
it last night by switching personalities to one of the DG modes.
I'm afraid I don't. My personal recommendation is get a DEC terminal, but
then I've got anywhere from a dislike to downright hatred for non-DEC
terminals.