[Simh] simh on MAC os (booting problem)

[Jason Stevens]

I would suggest trying to boot directly from the CD device... I think you
can just point readcd to /dev/disk1 to creat an 'better' ISO image... I know
for making Solaris CD images I needed to use readcd vs dd as readcd could
deal with different sessions, and sector sizes...



On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 11:46 AM, jorge sanchez <xsanch at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I followed the howto on the http://simh.darwinports.com/ for
> installing the simh port on my MAC OS (10.6.4).
>
> Then I dumped the content of the installation DVD to the file (trying
> to install the OpenVMS system):
> dd if=/dev/disk2s0 of=vaxvmscd.iso bs=2k
>
> And created the system file:
> dd if=/dev/zero of=vaxvmsssys.iso bs=512 count=9600000
>
> Made the ini file:
> LOAD -r KA655x.BIN
> ATTACH nvr nvram.bin
> ATTACH RQ0 vaxvmsssys.iso
> SET RQ0 RA90
> ATTACH RQ1 vaxvmscd.iso
> SET RQ1 RRD40
> SET CPU IDLE=VMS
> BOOT CPU
>
> Then when I try to boot from the cdrom I got this error:
>
> sh-3.2# simh-vax -v vaxvms.ini
>
> VAX simulator V3.8-1
> do> LOAD -r KA655x.BIN
> do> ATTACH nvr nvram.bin
> NVR: buffering file in memory
> do> ATTACH RQ0 vaxvmsssys.iso
> do> SET RQ0 RA90
> Unit already attached
> do> ATTACH RQ1 vaxvmscd.iso
> do> SET RQ1 RRD40
> Unit already attached
> do> SET CPU IDLE=VMS
> Invalid argument
> do> BOOT CPU
>
>
> KA655-B V5.3, VMB 2.7
> Performing normal system tests.
> 40..39..38..37..36..35..34..33..32..31..30..29..28..27..26..25..
> 24..23..22..21..20..19..18..17..16..15..14..13..12..11..10..09..
> 08..07..06..05..04..03..
> Tests completed.
> >>>boot dual1
> (BOOT/R5:0 DUAL1
>
>
>
>  2..
> ?41 DEVASSIGN, DUAL
> HALT instruction, PC: 00000C1A (MOVL (R11),SP)
>
> I don't know how to move forward. I would appreciate if someone could help
> me.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jorge
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