On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 08:17:09PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <r...@sky-visions.com> flavor, containing: > Hi Tom, > > While I have not tried Tops-20 on the KS10, I do have versions 2 > through 7 running on my unreleased KL10 simulator. I am still > resolving issues, I should be releasing it in a month or two.
That should be pretty cool. I look forward to it. > I think you need to hit ^C after the NO SYSJOB. I never get to a NO SYSJOB anywhere. It hangs right at "System restarting, wait..." ^C does nothing at that stage. > Rich > > > I'm a new simh user, and have mostly been using it to relive my youth > > on PDP-11s. But I also had played with TOPS-20 back in those misspent > > days, and wanted to see if I could have my own, fully realizing that > > SIMH can't run later versions of TOPS-20 because it simulates a > > KS10. Still, I am having trouble getting past the first few steps of > > the install. > > > > I am starting from the install document at > > http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/dec/pdp10/TOPS20/V4.1_Feb83/AA-P346A-TM_KS_Install_4.1_Feb83.pdf > > > > I have downloaded the install tape from > > http://pdp-10.trailing-edge.com/tapes/bb-d867e-bm_tops20_v41_2020_instl.tap.bz2 > > > > I use this "install.ini" file (cribbed from > > https://gunkies.org/wiki/Running_TOPS-20_V4.1_under_SIMH): > > > > set cpu tops-20 > > d wru 006 > > att tu bb-d867e-bm_tops20_v41_2020_instl.tap > > set rp rp06 > > att rp t20.dsk > > boot tu > > > > at which point I'm greeted with the expected MTBOOT> prompt. I then > > do: > > > > > > MTBOOT> /L > > MTBOOT> /G143 > > > > and basically say Y to all the questions: > > [FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION TYPE "?" TO ANY OF THE FOLLOWING > > QUESTIONS.] > > > > DO YOU WANT TO REPLACE THE FILE SYSTEM ON THE PUBLIC STRUCTURE? Y > > > > DO YOU WANT TO DEFINE THE PUBLIC STRUCTURE? Y > > > > HOW MANY PACKS ARE IN THIS STRUCTURE: 1 > > > > ON WHICH "CHANNEL,UNIT" IS LOGICAL PACK # 0 MOUNTED: 0,0 > > > > DO YOU WANT THE DEFAULT SWAPPING SPACE? Y > > > > DO YOU WANT THE DEFAULT SIZE FRONT END FILE SYSTEM? Y > > > > DO YOU WANT THE DEFAULT SIZE BOOTSTRAP AREA? Y > > > > [STRUCTURE "PS" SUCCESSFULLY DEFINED] > > > > [PS MOUNTED] > > ?PS UNIT 0 HAS NO BAT BLOCKS. > > DO YOU WANT TO WRITE A SET OF PROTOTYPE BAT BLOCKS? Y > > > > %%NO SETSPD > > > > System restarting, wait... > > > > > > At this point, the simulator just sits there for hours, never giving > > the date/time question the installation guide says I should get > > next. It does seem that the install process has at least initialized > > the disk image, and if I reboot and tell it to skip all of those > > filesystem initialization steps, it blasts right to the %%NO SETSPD > > and "System restarting" steps, whereupon it hangs again. > > > > I'm running simh off of today's current git master branch. I have > > compiled it both on FreeBSD and on Ubuntu 16.04 with identical > > results (so I am not assuming it's just a FreeBSD incompatibility > > issue). > > > > > > I see plenty of old references to running TOPS-20 4.1 on SIMH, and no > > such references to this apparent hanging of the simulator at a very > > early stage in installation. Has anybody got this running? Am I > > missing something blindingly obvious somewhere? > > > > -- > ========================================================================== > Richard Cornwell > r...@sky-visions.com > http://sky-visions.com > LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-cornwell-991076107 > ========================================================================== -- Tom Russo KM5VY Tijeras, NM echo "prpv_a'rfg_cnf_har_cvcr" | sed -e 's/_/ /g' | tr [a-m][n-z] [n-z][a-m] _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
