Re: [Simh] Booting the vax750 simulator.

2015-07-08 Thread Armistead, Jason BIS
] Booting the vax750 simulator. On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 3:49 PM, Henry Bent hb...@oberlin.edumailto:hb...@oberlin.edu wrote: It appears that it comes with VAX C, which is part of the base Ultrix packages. ​That makes sense. As I said, I'm would suspect it was driven by VAX Fortran project, but once

Re: [Simh] Booting the vax750 simulator.

2015-07-08 Thread Clem Cole
On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 1:45 PM, Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm m...@infocomm.com wrote: Definitely try a different disk. UNIX device drivers do not use the hardware the same way that VMS drivers do. This is certainly true! ​Amen​ ​...​ The VAX 750 UBA Buffered Data Path CSRs

Re: [Simh] Booting the vax750 simulator.

2015-07-08 Thread Clem Cole
/DTJ808/DTJ808PF.PDF Jason *From:* Simh [mailto:simh-boun...@trailing-edge.com] *On Behalf Of *Clem Cole *Sent:* Tuesday, 7 July 2015 4:17 PM *To:* Henry Bent *Cc:* simh@trailing-edge.com; Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm *Subject:* Re: [Simh] Booting the vax750 simulator. On Tue, Jul 7

Re: [Simh] Booting the vax750 simulator.

2015-07-08 Thread Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm
The latest simh code at on github now will run Ultrix on the VAX750 simulator! On Tuesday, June 23, 2015 at 7:21 PM, Henry Bent wrote: On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 7:06 PM, Henry Bent hb...@oberlin.edu wrote: Out of curiosity I tried Ultrix 4.3 and 4.5 on the /750, both with genvmunix and a

Re: [Simh] Booting the vax750 simulator.

2015-07-08 Thread Mattis Lind
2015-07-08 20:33 GMT+02:00 Ethan Dicks ethan.di...@gmail.com: On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 2:24 PM, Clem Cole cl...@ccc.com wrote: Definitely try a different disk. UNIX device drivers do not use the hardware the same way that VMS drivers do. My words, I think... The VAX 750 UBA Buffered

Re: [Simh] Booting the vax750 simulator

2015-07-08 Thread Mattis Lind
2015-07-07 20:42 GMT+02:00 Bill Cunningham bill...@suddenlink.net: [...] This kernel I built was only microvax II and VAX-11/750 so it won't directly boot on a 11/780 nor a VAX8600. But if I add a line CPU VAX780 and CPUVAX8600 it boots on both. But still no-go on vax750. I even

Re: [Simh] Booting the vax750 simulator.

2015-07-07 Thread Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm
The suggested “nm –n” is completely useful. From: Clem Cole [mailto:cl...@ccc.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 7, 2015 11:28 AM To: Henry Bent Cc: Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm; simh@trailing-edge.com Subject: Re: [Simh] Booting the vax750 simulator. Boy the bits in my memory are stale and could

Re: [Simh] Booting the vax750 simulator.

2015-07-07 Thread Henry Bent
, July 7, 2015 11:28 AM *To:* Henry Bent *Cc:* Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm; simh@trailing-edge.com *Subject:* Re: [Simh] Booting the vax750 simulator. Boy the bits in my memory are stale and could be confused, but my memory is that there was a way to wash it though the VMS linker to get

[Simh] Booting the vax750 simulator

2015-07-07 Thread Bill Cunningham
[...] This kernel I built was only microvax II and VAX-11/750 so it won't directly boot on a 11/780 nor a VAX8600. But if I add a line CPU VAX780 and CPU VAX8600 it boots on both. But still no-go on vax750. I even tried to remove some more optional features in the kernel config

Re: [Simh] Booting the vax750 simulator.

2015-07-07 Thread Clem Cole
-boun...@trailing-edge.com] *On Behalf Of *Mattis Lind *Sent:* Sunday, June 21, 2015 1:42 PM *To:* simh@trailing-edge.com *Subject:* Re: [Simh] Booting the vax750 simulator. 2015-06-21 18:22 GMT+02:00 Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm m...@infocomm.com : Hi there Mattis, Well, what

Re: [Simh] Booting the vax750 simulator.

2015-07-07 Thread Clem Cole
*To:* simh@trailing-edge.com *Subject:* Re: [Simh] Booting the vax750 simulator. 2015-06-21 18:22 GMT+02:00 Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm m...@infocomm.com : Hi there Mattis, Well, what you’re asking for (running model specific diagnostics) has been out of scope for all of the simh VAX

Re: [Simh] Booting the vax750 simulator.

2015-07-06 Thread Kevin Handy
It would be interesting to know what R0 is trying to point to. Is it just a bad value, memory that should be mapped, a device, ... Source would be helpful, if you could figure out what the source is (likely compiled C, since it;s Unix). Since the simh code for the devices are mostly the same

Re: [Simh] Booting the vax750 simulator.

2015-07-06 Thread Ethan Dicks
On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 3:41 PM, Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm m...@infocomm.com wrote: Hi Mattis, I’m working with the disk image you provided. I see the failure on the VAX750 simulator. Have you tried earlier versions of Ultrix on the 750 simulator? I initially look at the crash message:

Re: [Simh] Booting the vax750 simulator.

2015-07-06 Thread Rhialto
On Mon 06 Jul 2015 at 16:13:49 -0400, Ethan Dicks wrote: I at least had (still have) the source for 4.3BSD. I did narrow things down quite a bit, but then I ran off to learn more about how the disk controller works and haven't put any time into it for a few months. Does it boot NetBSD?

Re: [Simh] Booting the vax750 simulator.

2015-07-06 Thread Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm
request for a link map and also to try and reproduce this with an OS version that has source… -Mark From: Simh [mailto:simh-boun...@trailing-edge.com] On Behalf Of Mattis Lind Sent: Sunday, June 21, 2015 1:42 PM To: simh@trailing-edge.com Subject: Re: [Simh] Booting the vax750 simulator

Re: [Simh] Booting the vax750 simulator.

2015-07-06 Thread Henry Bent
, June 21, 2015 1:10 AM *To:* simh@trailing-edge.com *Subject:* Re: [Simh] Booting the vax750 simulator. 2015-06-19 16:33 GMT+02:00 Johnny Billquist b...@softjar.se: I would suggest you start off by creating the system using a simulated uVAX II, as that can boot from tape. Once you have

Re: [Simh] Booting the vax750 simulator.

2015-07-04 Thread Mattis Lind
A little bit of update to this. The very image I created on the Microvax 2 simulator which didn't boot on the vax750 simulator booted just fine on the real thing. So there has to be some kind of bug inside the simulator as far I understand it. B %% @@ Patch Control Store is Present Done

Re: [Simh] Booting the vax750 simulator.

2015-06-24 Thread Henry Bent
/u/96935524/Datormusuem/VAX11-750/ultrix3.dsk /Mattis -Mark *From:* Simh [mailto:simh-boun...@trailing-edge.com] *On Behalf Of *Mattis Lind *Sent:* Sunday, June 21, 2015 1:10 AM *To:* simh@trailing-edge.com *Subject:* Re: [Simh] Booting the vax750 simulator. 2015-06-19

Re: [Simh] Booting the vax750 simulator.

2015-06-23 Thread Ethan Dicks
On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 7:06 PM, Henry Bent hb...@oberlin.edu wrote: Out of curiosity I tried Ultrix 4.3 and 4.5 on the /750, both with genvmunix and a custom kernel, and both showed the problem. Whatever the issue here is, it appears to never have been fixed. I tried disabling just about

Re: [Simh] Booting the vax750 simulator.

2015-06-23 Thread Henry Bent
*Subject:* Re: [Simh] Booting the vax750 simulator. 2015-06-19 16:33 GMT+02:00 Johnny Billquist b...@softjar.se: I would suggest you start off by creating the system using a simulated uVAX II, as that can boot from tape. Once you have the system running. move the disk over to an emulated

Re: [Simh] Booting the vax750 simulator.

2015-06-21 Thread Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm
: [Simh] Booting the vax750 simulator. 2015-06-19 16:33 GMT+02:00 Johnny Billquist b...@softjar.semailto:b...@softjar.se: I would suggest you start off by creating the system using a simulated uVAX II, as that can boot from tape. Once you have the system running. move the disk over to an emulated

Re: [Simh] Booting the vax750 simulator.

2015-06-21 Thread Mattis Lind
: [Simh] Booting the vax750 simulator. 2015-06-19 16:33 GMT+02:00 Johnny Billquist b...@softjar.se: I would suggest you start off by creating the system using a simulated uVAX II, as that can boot from tape. Once you have the system running. move the disk over to an emulated 11/750

Re: [Simh] Booting the vax750 simulator.

2015-06-21 Thread Clem Cole
*Subject:* Re: [Simh] Booting the vax750 simulator. 2015-06-19 16:33 GMT+02:00 Johnny Billquist b...@softjar.se: I would suggest you start off by creating the system using a simulated uVAX II, as that can boot from tape. Once you have the system running. move the disk over to an emulated 11

Re: [Simh] Booting the vax750 simulator.

2015-06-21 Thread Mattis Lind
2015-06-19 16:33 GMT+02:00 Johnny Billquist b...@softjar.se: I would suggest you start off by creating the system using a simulated uVAX II, as that can boot from tape. Once you have the system running. move the disk over to an emulated 11/750, and continue playing from there. I did as

[Simh] Booting the vax750 simulator.

2015-06-19 Thread Mattis Lind
Hello! I am in the process to revive an VAX-11/750 machine but since I have no tape (nor install tapes) drive my idea was to create an image which I could transfer to a SCSI disk and then use a MSCP SCSI controller to boot the machine. I thought it would be a good idea to use the SimH vax750

Re: [Simh] Booting the vax750 simulator.

2015-06-19 Thread Johnny Billquist
I would suggest you start off by creating the system using a simulated uVAX II, as that can boot from tape. Once you have the system running. move the disk over to an emulated 11/750, and continue playing from there. Johnny On 2015-06-19 16:14, Mattis Lind wrote: Hello! I am in the