Find out what your friend had the device type set to for this disk image and set it to the same value in your vax.ini file. I once had trouble trying to boot the emulator off of a disk image that was copied from another system. I hadn't set the device type. After I did it booted with no problem.
On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 12:54 AM, Dan Gahlinger <[email protected]>wrote: > I don't know what platform the DSK file was created on, > but I can read it with ods2 on linux, and it does at least partially boot. > > I have not gotten anything to boot with vax780 on my linux. > simh was built on this same machine. > I will mention the vax emulator runs fine, thats the 3900 emulator I > believe. > but vax780 not. > the DSK file will not work on the vax emulator as it's a vax780 image, > I get an error about "incorrect processor" it doesnt even display the > version banner, > the fact the vax780 displays the banner at least suggests its reading the > DSK properly. > > is there a way to debug the fatal error? > > again, I know its a valid vms image in that DSK because ODS2 reads it > properly. > or at least that suggests its proper. > > I've rebuilt SIMH in several different directory trees on this machine, and > get the same results. > as for bootup, mostly I use the standard commands as some of the vax.ini > don't work. > heres the INI I've been using for vax780 startup, though I normally type > these in manually > and don't use the iso attach any longer. > > I went through a lot of trial and error to get things working this far, > using the backup commands from the ISO boot. > vms5.2 is the oldest I have, and 6.0 is the oldest workable ISO I have for > this > > load -r /usr/local/vms42/ka655x.bin > ; > ; Attach non-volatile RAM to a file > attach nvr /usr/local/vms42/nvram.bin > ; > ; This virtual machine has 64M memory > set cpu 128m > ; > ; Define disk drive types. RA92 is largest-supported VAX drive. > set rq0 cdrom > set rq1 ra92 > set rq2 ra92 > set rq3 ra92 > ; > ; Attach defined drives to local files > attach rq1 /usr/local/vms42/vms42a.dsk > attach rq2 /usr/local/vms42/vms42b.dsk > attach rq3 /usr/local/vms42/vms42c.dsk > ; > ; Attach the CD-ROM to its file (read-only) > attach -r ts0 /usr/local/vms42/vms42.tap > attach -r rq0 /usr/local/vms42/vms6_0.iso > > Dan. > > > > Hello! > > This is a long shot, but here goes, what, ah, platform was the > > original DSK file created on? That is what is their copy of SIMH for > > the Vax running on? > > > > Next why not provide for us a copy of the methods used to initialize > > the emulator. From that we may be able to advise you further. > > > > And this is extremely important, did you build your own copy of SIMH > > for this release of SUSE? Or was it built originally on a different > > platform? > > > > Oh and does the program run anything else properly? Other releases of > > what the DSK blob you're trying to boot here, contains. It could be > > our old friend VMS, or BSD or something we've not heard of before on > > that DSK and so forth. > > ----- > > Gregg C Levine [email protected] > > "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again." > > _______________________________________________ > Simh mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh > -- Thomas Pfau [email protected] http://www.linkedin.com/in/thomaspfau http://nbpfaus.net/~pfau/
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