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 Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 10, 2016, at 4:03 PM, Pete Turnbull <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 10/03/2016 20:08, Paul Koning wrote: >> >>> On Mar 10, 2016, at 2:54 PM, Pete Turnbull >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> 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. >> >> 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. > > 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? > > -- > Pete
