[Simh] VMS 4.x crashing on every other boot

[Mark Pizzolato]

Hi Andrew,

I'll take a stab at tracking this down if you can provide me with a
disk image of the VMS V4.6 system. (Preferably compressed with gzip
or zip).

- Mark Pizzolato


--- Andrew Warkentin <andreww at datanet.ab.ca> wrote:

> Hittner, David T. wrote:
> 
> >The first thing VMS does after printing the version is go into the
> >hardware detection phase, so the MUP may have added a more
> rigorous test
> >for some piece of hardware that SIMH is not not simulating
> perfectly (or
> >is simulating too well :-).
> >
> >You might try reducing the attached devices in SIMH to the bare
> minimum
> >and see if you can figure out which device is hanging the
> simulator.
> >
> >If you get it down to just the primary disk drive and it's still
> >hanging, try installing VMS on a different type of disk drive
> and/or a
> >different type of disk controller.
> >  
> >
> That doesn't fix it. Even attaching the image as a different type
> of 
> disk doesn't fix it.
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