[Simh] Autoboot on the 3900 & loosing characters on the console during startup

[Villy Madsen]

Mark


Works great!!!

Noticed something strange though (nothing to do with the microcode - I don't
think)...

My console seems to be dropping characters during startup

Happens both with the ethernet console and with the dos window console - appears
to be loosing a linefeed....

The ethernet connected console uses Putty

Running under w/xp

Device                  Device           Error    Volume         Free  Trans Mnt
 Name                   Status           Count     Label        Blocks Count Cnt
$2$DUA0:      (VGMVAX)  ShadowSetMember      0  (member of DSA7:)
$2$DUA1:      (VGMVAX)  Online               0
$2$DUA2:      (VGMVAX)  Online               0
$2$DUA3:      (VGMVAX)  Online               0
$2$DUB0:      (VGMVAX)  ShadowSetMember      0  (member of DSA7:)
$2$DUB1:      (VGMVAX)  Online               0
$2$DUB2:      (VGMVAX)  Online               0
$2$DUB3:      (VGMVAX)  Online               0
%MOUNT-I-MOUNTED, OVMSVAXSYS mounted on _DSA7:
%MOUNT-I-ISAMBR, _$2$DUB0: (VGMVAX) is a member of the shadow set
%WBM-I-WBMINFO Deleting all bitmaps represented by this WBMB. set
%MOUNT-I-MOUNTED, VAXDATA2 mounted on _DSA2:
%MOUNT-I-SHDWMEMSUCC, _$2$DUA2: (VGMVAX) is now a valid member of the shadow set
%WBM-I-WBMINFO Deleting all bitmaps represented by this WBMB.r of the shadow set
<< In here and other places
%MOUNT-I-MOUNTED, VAXDATA3 mounted on _DSA3:
%MOUNT-I-SHDWMEMSUCC, _$2$DUA3: (VGMVAX) is now a valid member of the shadow set
%MOUNT-I-SHDWMEMSUCC, _$2$DUB3: (VGMVAX) is now a valid member of the shadow set
Job SSH_SERVER_STARTUP (queue SYS$BATCH, entry 1) started on SYS$BATCH
%WASD-I-STARTUP, begin
%WASD-I-STARTUP, using SSL image
%HTTPD-S-PROC_ID, identification of created process is 0000021B
%WASD-I-STARTUP, end
%SET-I-INTSET, login interactive limit = 64, current interactive value = 0
  SYSTEM       job terminated at 18-MAR-2008 20:13:47.61 

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Pizzolato [mailto:mark at infocomm.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 02:08
To: simh at trailing-edge.com; Villy.Madsen at shaw.ca
Cc: mark at infocomm.com
Subject: Re: [Simh] Autoboot on the 3900

Villy,

Give the attached ka655x.bin ROM image a try.

I'm not sure if this message with an attachment will make it through the list
for everyone else though.

Let me know on the list and I'll pass the change along to Bob for inclusion in
the next version.

- Mark Pizzolato


--- Mark Pizzolato <mark at infocomm.com> wrote:

> Hmmm...
> 
> I did the work on the ROM image that made the extended memory 
> possible.  I'll look into why this is happening.  My goal was for the 
> updated ROM image to be a drop in replacement for the original rom and 
> merely behave nicely when more memory was available.
> 
> - Mark
> 
> --- Villy Madsen <Villy.Madsen at shaw.ca> wrote:
> 
> > Decide to reconfigure my VAX from 512mb to 48 MB.
> > 
> > Works fine, but the autoboot doesn't seem to work anymore (i.e. I 
> > have to type in boot DUA0
> > 
> > Ini file is
> > 
> > 
> > load -r ka655x.bin
> > attach nvr nvram.bin
> > set cpu 48m
> > set cpu idle
> > d idle_ipl 8
> > d idle_wait 2000
> > set rq1 rauser=4096
> > set rq0 ra92
> > set rq2 ra92
> > set rq3 ra92
> > set rl disable
> > attach rq0 f:/VAXSys.dsk
> > attach rq2 f:/vaxdata1.dsk
> > attach rq3 f:/vaxdata2.dsk
> > attach xq eth2
> > attach ts vax.tap
> > ;Set console telnet=1000
> > ;set cpu conhalt
> > dep bdr 0
> > boot cpu
> > 
> > 
> > Any thoughts
> > 
> > Villy
> > 
> > 
> > Villy Madsen
> > www.members.shaw.ca/villy.madsen
> > 
> > 
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