10 Mar
2016
10 Mar
'16
1:08 p.m.
If I have time tonight I'll log the session with "verbose" set on the
TU58EM. Again, I'm trying the trick of booting from a TU58 emulator and an RK image
with DD as the boot target (supposedly can work but maybe slow). I can see the blocks
being read in but it stops and doesn't give me the sign-on banner.
Rich
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On Mar 10, 2016, at 4:03 PM, Pete Turnbull <pete at
dunnington.plus.com> wrote:
On 10/03/2016 20:08, Paul Koning wrote:
I know v2 doesn't have SYSGEN but IIRC you still need to need to have things set up
right, like the driver files. I haven't used V3 (I have some RX01 flopppies with that
and MuBASIC) in several decades so I can't remember if that was when it changed. But
for all versions you need to set up the correct boot block for the specific boot device.
4.0 is so straightforward I'm surprised if it won't run on Rich's H11 - 4.0 is
contemporary with the LSI-11 and 11/03 and although the other cards are different I
thought the H11 used a standard DEC LSI-11 processor.
Maybe something vital isn't at the expected address? Or there's an unexpected
interrupt or something? What exactly does it do (or was it doing) when it barfs and how
far does it get?
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Pete On Mar 10, 2016, at 2:54 PM, Pete Turnbull
<pete at dunnington.plus.com> wrote:
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. On 10/03/2016 19:28, Richard Cini wrote:
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.