Sure, I'll work on getting an Ultrix image in a usable state so that I can upload it.
-Henry On 12 July 2014 22:50, Johnny Billquist <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2014-07-13 04:19, Henry Bent wrote: > >> Cool, thanks. >> >> I figured out what's going on. The standalone programs are running, >> they just aren't displaying any input or output after the first >> character is printed. So if I do this: >> >> -- >> sim> load -o boot 0 >> sim> run 2 >> >> -- >> and then blindly type "ra(0,0)vmunix", it boots! >> > > [...] > > Hmm hmm. I suspect I might know what is going on there. I'd have to test > and play around some to verify, though. The console I/O on the 86x0 > machines are a bit special, and I wouldn't be surprised if there were some > issues in simh related to that. > > Mark, can we get some trace of all reads and writes to the registers > related to the console? (There are four logical devices addressed on the > 86x0 machines through the same CSRs.) > > Henry, if you could get such information logged, we could probably fix > this pretty fast. Or else if you could just provide me with the files, I > could test this myself as well. I don't have an old Ultrix image around, > though. > > Johnny > > >> -- >> Ultrix V2.2 System #2: Wed Nov 18 01:14:13 EST 1987 >> real mem = 8388608 >> avail mem = 6888448 >> using 34 buffers containing 278528 bytes of memory >> VAX 8600, serial no. 1234, hardware level = 7 >> IO adapter 0 at address 0x20080000 is an SBI adapter >> uba0 at address 0x20006000 >> uda0 at uba0 >> uq0 at uda0 csr 172150 vec 774, ipl 15 >> ra0 at uq0 slave 0 >> de0 at uba0 csr 174510 vec 120, ipl 15 >> mba0 at address 0x20012000 >> ht0 at mba0 drive 0 >> tu0 at ht0 slave 0 >> boot device not found >> root device? >> -- >> >> And I can then interact with the console, characters are displayed >> normally, etc. >> >> -Henry >> >> >> On 12 July 2014 19:33, Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> On Thursday, July 10, 2014 at 5:23 PM, Mark Pizzolato wrote: >> > On Jul 10, 2014 2:02 PM, Johnny Billquist <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> > > >> > > On 2014-07-11 01:08, Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm wrote: >> > > > On Thursday, July 10, 2014 at 3:13 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote: >> > > >> On Thu, 10 Jul 2014, Henry Bent wrote: >> > > >> >> > > >>> Well, that at least did something different. >> > >>> >> > >>> sim> boot rq0 /r5:8 >> > >>> Loading boot code from vmb.exe >> > >>> %BOOT-F-Unexpected Exceptio >> > >>> >> > >>> The 8600 simulator always seems to cut off the last character >> of its >> > >>> messages, I wonder if that's in any way related to the other >> console >> > >>> problems. >> > >>> >> > >> >> > >> 780, 750, and 730 have the same issue...along with not >> actually booting from >> > >> the console RL, floppy, et al. >> > > >> > > The last character output in a message just prior to executing >> a HALT >> > > instruction is not surprising since the simulator implements a >> delay >> > > (as a number of instructions executed) from when the data is put >> in >> > > the output register prior to generating the completion >> interrupt/status. >> > > The halt instruction gets executed before the delay number of >> > > instructions have completed. Even if that was 'fixed', nothing >> > > operational would change. The reason the message has been >> > > generated will still exist. >> >> The latest github code will no longer drop the last character output >> just prior to executing a HALT instruction which returns to the >> "sim> " prompt. >> >> Like I said above, nothing else changes though. >> >> - Mark >> _______________________________________________ >> Simh mailing list >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh >> >> >> > > -- > Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus > || on a psychedelic trip > email: [email protected] || Reading murder books > pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol >
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