Antonio Carlini wrote:
der Mouse
wrote:
To use the MicroVAX-II example (because that's
what I have), I'd be
perfectly content to netboot to get the OS kernel onto the machine,
provided it has local disk once it gets there. Hence the Qbus-IDE
project. Hence the plan to maybe even get that odd SCSI card (the
KZQSA was it? I forget) working.
This reminds me that there was a piece of code kicking around
DEC that allowed a uVAX 3 series machine to boot from KZQSA.
Basically it was (iirc) piece of bootable code (floppy boot, netboot,
both ... I don't remember the details) which when booted would find
a KZQSA and boot off that.
Never kept hold of it and I never saw the source (which would
have been instructuve I suppose).
Jerome Fine replies:
DEC produced a boot program for MSCP which was in the RT-11
software release notes of V05.04D of RT-11. It is 55 words
long and would likely take about 5 minutes to enter by hand.
I probably used it about 10 times over the past 20 years
when I was desperate and had no other means of booting
RT-11. If anyone requests, I can enter it one more time.
I seem to remember that this has already been done and even
disassembled as well.
Sincerely yours,
Jerome Fine
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