booting from RQDX3 - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

2 Jun 2001

From: Jochen Kunz &lt;jkunz(a)unixag-kl.fh-kl.de&gt;
...
   How does a
PDP-11 boot from an RQDX3 controller?
 These machines are in a 4-slot dual-wide card cage which is full. I am afraid that
there is only one solution in this configuration:
Typing in the bootstrap via ODT at startup. I do this with my 11/73,
because I don't have a ROM card. But a ROM card is no solution for you,
as you don't have a free slot. I connected the console line of the PDP
to a serial port of a PeeCee, so I can use a minicom script to type in the
...
 bootstrap. 

Or like I have in one of my BA-11VA boxen.

System A with HD

    11/23 (KDF11-A)
    256k ram
    MXV11 with boot roms.
    RQDX3 + disk

System B with Tu58

    11/23
    256k ram
    DLV11j
    MR11C    rom card with tu58 boot.

Allison