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

[Frederik Meerwaldt]

Peter,

as someone else said, rq1 is not a device name which you can boot  
from the chevron-prompt - actually RQ1 is no device name in VMS,  
either...
Try >>> boot dua1:

Greetings,

Freddy

On Jul 18, 2007, at 11:36 AM, Peter Moreton wrote:

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> OK, so I have tried copying the VMS CD using 'DD' from http:// 
> www.chrysocome.net/dd and the command:
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> dd if=\\?\Device\CdRom0 of=openvms71.img bs=2k
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> (Not sure if the blocksize of 2k is correct, but it seems plausible)
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> However, I still get the DEVASSIGN error when I boot the cd image.
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> ?41 DEVASSIGN, RQ1
> HALT instruction, PC: 00000C1A (MOVL (R11),SP)
> sim>
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> 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?
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> 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?)
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> > 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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