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

[Peter Moreton]

Thanks Freddy,
 
Boot DUA1: does work fine, and I now have VMS 7.1 running very nicely indeed. On a quad 2.2Ghz Opteron machine, the performance is quite stunning, and it just goes to show how insanely fast modern CPU's are (and what appalling pieces of bloatware XP and worse, Vista are!!) 
 
What are the licensing issues surrounding SIMH ? (and similarly, CHARON) - if someone has a licensed VAX, can they take the environment to SIMH, including license keys, and run from this, legally?
 
 



> CC: simh at trailing-edge.com> From: frederik at freddym.org> Subject: Re: [Simh] trying to get the OpenVMS 7.1 CD to boot> Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 11:14:47 +0200> To: petermoreton at hotmail.co.uk> > 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:> > >> > 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 correct, 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.> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > 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> > >> > > +---------------------------------------------------------+> > > | VSM Software Services Pty. Ltd. |> > > | http://www.vsm.com.au/ |> > > | "OpenVMS Systems Management & Programming" |> > > |---------------------------------------------------------|> > > | P.O.Box 402, Walkerville, | E-Mail: jeremy at vsm.com.au |> > > | South Australia 5081 | Phone: +61 8 8221 5188 |> > > |---------------------------| Mobile: 0414 422 947 |> > > | A.C.N. 068 409 156 | FAX: +61 8 8221 7199 |> > > +---------------------------------------------------------+> >> >> >> > Are you the Quizmaster? Play BrainBattle with a friend now!> > _______________________________________________> > Simh mailing list> > Simh at trailing-edge.com> > http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh> 
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