On Wed, 2 Jul 2014, Christian Gauger-Cosgrove wrote:
Bah, I just noticed shortly after sending the message that it was only pointing at Mark and Cory not the list reflector. That has been rectified none the less.
Whoops. ;) [snipping]
Many thanks to Cory for figuring out the magic needed to get the Quasijarus standalone boot to work on the 780. It makes sense now that I look at it. Although I'm having some difficulty getting past the initial boot-label-disk-and-restore-root phase. Are there any copies of the VAX-11/780 console diskette out there (the original DEC one)? Labelling the RP07 I installed to with the hpboot / boothp bootblock(s) doesn't result in a bootable disk (BOOT RP0 doesn't work), so I'd like to try it the way the Quasijarus manual says it should be done (create a modified console floppy that boots the RP07 disk).
I don't have any images of the 11/780 console floppy...but I DO have a VMS 3.x console floppy. I think diag floppies are up on ftp dot trailing-edge, too.
I DO however have images of the 11/750 diag floppies.
In other news, I have had some assistance getting Quasijarus up and running on the 11/730 --- which is where my end goal is in this endeavour. If one extracts the standalone boot and copy from the srcsys.tar archive they can be loaded into the 730's memory via LOAD. (At location 0, of course, and then starting the sim from 2.) But I have run into some difficulty with the RB730 simulation. There might be a bug in it, I am uncertain, but on the initial boot of the system it gets stuck in an infinite loop of "idc0: lost interrupt".
Try disabling all other units for the controller, and all other unused controllers.
I've packaged up a copy of my simulator config, as well as the relevant Quasijarus files: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/69943308/Quasijarus-730beta.zip (12.7MB)
Downloading now.
ts0 at zs0 slave 0 dz0 at uba0 csr 160100 vec 300, ipl 15 dz1 at uba0 csr 160110 vec 310, ipl 15 lp0 at uba0 csr 177514 vec 200, ipl 14 root device? rb0* <--- Enter "rb0*" here. idc0: lost interrupt <--- This error repeats infinitely.
The only person I know with an 11/730 has a currently non-functional one...or it lacks a drive. One of the two...forget which so I can't confirm if it's a SIMH or 4.3 bug.
So, I'm not quite sure what's wrong with the RB730, but at least one is able to partially get QUasijarus up and running on the 11/730.
I'll go fiddle with it and respond with my findings.
Christian M. Gauger-Cosgrove STCKON08DS0 Contact information available upon request.
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