[Simh] trying to get the OpenVMS 7.1 CD to boot

[Bucher Andreas]

Hi, 

Glad to be of assistance  :-)

Still I am wondering why the emulated VAX recognized RQx as device name ... ?

Andreas

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Moreton [mailto:petermoreton at hotmail.co.uk] 
> Sent: Mittwoch, 18. Juli 2007 12:33
> To: Bucher Andreas
> Subject: RE: [Simh] trying to get the OpenVMS 7.1 CD to boot
> 
> Good grief, thats it!
>  
> Standalone backup booting just fine now....
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
>  
> 
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> > Subject: RE: [Simh] trying to get the OpenVMS 7.1 CD to boot
> > Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 11:59:51 +0200
> > From: A.Bucher at alcatel-lucent.de
> > To: petermoreton at hotmail.co.uk
> > 
> > Hi Peter, 
> > 
> > I think what Jeremy said about ISO is not correct - in 
> fact, an ISO is the easiest (and only) way of supplying 
> CDROMs to Simh, since there is no support for physical CDROM drives.
> > 
> > But:
> > Shouldn't you boot using DUA1 (instead of RQ1) ??
> > 
> > I mean:
> > 
> > VAX simulator V3.7-2
> > sim> set rq0 rd54
> > sim> set rq1 cdrom
> > sim> att rq0 new_vms.dsk
> > sim> att rq1 OpenVMS71.iso
> > sim> boot cpu
> > Loading boot code from ka655x.bin
> > ←[c
> > KA655-B V5.3, VMB 2.7
> > Performing normal system tests.
> > 40..39..38..37..36..35..34..33..32..31..30..29.
> > 24..23..22..21..20..19..18..17..16..15..14..13.
> > 08..07..06..05..04..03..> Tests completed.
> > >>>boot dua1
> > 
> > Remember, you're running a VAX ;-)
> > (try a >>> sho dev )
> > 
> > At least that's what works for me ...
> > 
> > Why the name RQ1 is available and accessible from within 
> the running VAX emulation, I don't know ...
> > 
> > Andreas
> > 
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com 
> > > [mailto:simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com] On Behalf Of Peter Moreton
> > > Sent: Mittwoch, 18. Juli 2007 11:37
> > > To: simh at trailing-edge.com
> > > Subject: Re: [Simh] trying to get the OpenVMS 7.1 CD to boot
> > > 
> > > 
> > > OK, so I have tried copying the VMS CD using 'DD' from 
> > > http://www.chrysocome.net/dd and the command:
> > > 
> > > dd if=¥¥?¥Device¥CdRom0 of=openvms71.img bs=2k
> > > 
> > > (Not sure if the blocksize of 2k is c! orrect, but it 
> seems plausible)
> > > 
> > > However, I still get the DEVASSIGN error when I boot the cd image.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > ?41 DEVASSIGN, RQ1
> > > HALT instruction, PC: 00000C1A (MOVL (R11),SP)
> > > sim>
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > My CD is marked "OpenVMS VAX Operating System v7.1 Binaries" 
> > > - It's been such a long time since I did a VMS install that I 
> > > can't remember how to kick off the install - do you just boot 
> > > the image, or use /R5:1 or what?. Should I expect the vms 
> > > binaries CD to boot in SIMH?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Once I get this going, I'll write up the process, I know 
> > > there is a Linux "howto", but a Windows one would be useful also.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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> > > 
> > > 
> > > ______________________! __________
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:06:52 +0930
> > > > From: jeremy at vsm.com.au
> > > > Subject: Re: [Simh] trying to get the OpenVMS 7.1 CD to boot
> > > > To: petermoreton at hotmail.co.uk
> > > > CC: simh at trailing-edge.com
> > > > 
> > > > Hello Peter,
> > > > 
> > > > >I made an ISO of a VMS 7.1 CD (not sure if I did this 
> > > correctly, the only
> > > > >tool I could get to read the CD was WinImage - it produced 
> > > an error message
> > > > >as it read the CD, but also a 400Mbyte ISO, so maybe 
> it worked?)
> > > > 
> > > > The VMS boot loader doesn't know anything about ISO images 
> > > -- what you need
> > > > is a block-for-block image of the CD-ROM. I expect that 
> > > WinImage has added
> > > > some data to the image file which ! VMS can't cope with.
> > > > 
> > > > Regards,
> > > > 
> > > > Jeremy Begg
> > > > 
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