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

[Hittner, David T.]

Is there a similar switch to B/R5:30000 for Alpha to generate verbose
VMS startup output?

Dave 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com 
> [mailto:simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com] On Behalf Of Wilm Boerhout
> Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 4:19 PM
> To: Andrew Warkentin
> Cc: simh at trailing-edge.com
> Subject: Re: [Simh] VMS 4.x crashing on every other boot
> 
> on 11-3-2008 11:27 Andrew Warkentin wrote...
> > I have tried to run VMS 4.4 and VMS 4.6 under the 
> VAX/11-780 simulator. 
> > It boots properly every time without the mandatory update 
> installed, 
> > but it hangs after the system version have been printed on 
> the console 
> > the first time it is booted after the mandatory update has 
> been installed.
> >
> > If it is rebooted, it boots properly, but it continues to alternate 
> > between hanging and booting properly on successive boots. I am not 
> > sure if this is a SIMH bug, or if I have misconfigured VMS 
> (but I just 
> > went with the default install and did not change any 
> configuration). 
> > It is kind of weird that it starts hanging only after the mandatory 
> > update has been installed.
> >   
>  >>> B/R5:30000 should give you a clue as to what startup 
> phase is causing the problem. It's verbose!
> 
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