Micro 11/73

The console is TT000: IIRC, the next lines should be a set of RED (redirect) commands setting pseudo devices like SY: and LB: to the disk from which you are booting. (I might look at my own consoles, but I still haven't got my own -11s running, I'm reading to many of these "classiccmp" postings... ;-) I wouldn't bother too much about the "not in config" message: it just means the controller is known but absent, which you can safely ignore for the moment. You may want to pick this up later, when you want to have another terminal. Yes, RSX is a bit picky here, it does not automatically reconfigure as RT-11 would do, but it should be able to complete the boot sequence. This behaviour is typical for a RSX that needs to wait for something that doesn't happen, e.g., when memory and pagefile space are short and you run into a deadlock. In your case, some very basic initialization tasks are not yet completed, some vital tasks are certainly not yet installed. I think something is wrong with the OS, but it might be possible to fix it if you can put the disk into another RSX machine (or boot your box is using PIP to copy the .TSK to a properly sized and contiguous .SYS file, on which you will then fiddle with VMR to define partitions, pre-load drivers, install basic tasks like INS, etc. This will produce a "virgin system" that you can boot and SAVe back to the disk. If you have this option, let me know and I'll look up the exact commands. Or, send the machine to me: a /73 is what I'm looking for for quite a while now. ;-) -- Andreas Freiherr Vishay Semiconductor GmbH, Heilbronn, Germany http://www.vishay.com