[Simh] simh on MAC os (booting problem)

jorge sanchez xsanch at gmail.com
Mon Aug 9 14:50:41 EDT 2010


Hi,

I tried to make dd of /dev/disk1:
sh-3.2# dd if=/dev/disk1 of=vaxvmscd2.iso bs=2k
1685744+0 records in
1685744+0 records out
3452403712 bytes transferred in 1243.793152 secs (2775706 bytes/sec)

Still not able to boot:
sh-3.2# simh-vax -v vaxvms2.ini

VAX simulator V3.8-1
do> LOAD -r KA655x.BIN
do> SET RQ0 RA92
do> SET RQ1 RRD40
do> ATTACH nvr nvram.bin
NVR: buffering file in memory
do> ATTACH RQ0 vaxvmsssys.iso
do> ATTACH RQ1 vaxvmscd2.iso
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 dua1
(BOOT/R5:0 DUA1



  2..
-DUA1
?43 FILESTRUCT, DUA
HALT instruction, PC: 00000C1A (MOVL (R11),SP)
sim> quit

How can I configure simh to point directly to cd ?

Thanks,

Jorge

On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Jason Stevens <neozeed at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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