Those were your directions I followed from your web site (somewhere don't remember where)! The disk pack boots I just can't do much more than hit enter and cause another # prompt, maybe get a command not found message. It has been a while. I built the image in simH first, then ported to a real RL02. Bill
On Wed, Jan 9, 2019 at 11:21 AM Noel Chiappa via cctalk < [email protected]> wrote: > > From: Bill Degnan > > > I attempted to port the same version of unix to an rl02 disk pack and > > to run on an actual 11/40. I was able to get ir to boot up to the # > > prompt but my system does not have a working EIS card to proceed any > > further. > > I"m incredibly surprised that you got to the prompt! First, the V6 RL > bootstrap uses ASH, part of EIS. And then the C compiler makes extensive > use > of EIS instructions, so anything in C (the OS, 'init', 'sh', etc) may have > EIS > instructions in it. > > Noel >
