[Simh] Install of VMS4.6 on VAX 780 crashes

[Peter Allan]

Greg,

The VMS 4.6 tapes do allow you to do an installation from scratch as well as
an update as I have just done it.

I still have a problem, but see my next e-mail for details.

Peter Allan

On 28 December 2010 07:07, Gregg Levine <gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com> wrote:

>  On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 1:45 AM, Jarratt RMA
> <robert.jarratt at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> > If you are working from the same media I have, then I think the 4.6 media
> > are an upgrade only and you will need to install an earlier version
> first. I
> > think I installed 4.0 first.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Rob
> >
> > On 27 December 2010 12:30, Peter Allan <petermallan at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> I have managed to get hold of some versions of VMS, mostly VMS 4.X and I
> >> am trying to install VMS4.6 on an emulated 780 using simh.
> >>
> >> The sequence I have followed is:
> >>
> >> Boot using the VMS 7.3 CD
> >>
> >> Run BACKUP to copy the REQUIRED saveset from the VMS 4.6 emulated tape
> to
> >> an RA81 disk with the command
> >>    BACKUP/VERIFY  MTA0:REQUIRED/SAVE  DUA0:
> >>
> >> However, when I boot from the RA81, expecting the installation sequence
> to
> >> continue, I get
> >>
> >>    VAX/VMS Version  KG  15-Jun-1987 10:00
> >>
> >>
> >> **** FATAL BUG CHECK, VERSION =  KG  INVEXCEPTN, Exception while above
> >> ASTDEL or on interrupt stack
> >>
> >>     CURRENT PROCESS = SWAPPER
> >>
> >>     REGISTER DUMP
> >>
> >>         R0 = 00000008
> >>         R1 = 04080000
> >>         R2 = 00000000
> >>         R3 = 00000000
> >>         R4 = 80002748
> >>         R5 = 00000000
> >>         R6 = 00000000
> >>         R7 = 00000000
> >>         R8 = 00000000
> >>         R9 = 00000000
> >>         R10= 00000000
> >>         R11= 00000000
> >>         AP = 00000000
> >>         FP = 00000000
> >>         SP = 801F91D0
> >>         PC = 80004862
> >>         PSL= 04080009
> >>
> >>     KERNEL/INTERRUPT STACK
> >>
> >>         801F91D8  00000004
> >>         801F91DC  00000000
> >>         801F91E0  FFFFFFFD
> >>         801F91E4  00000000
> >>         801F91E8  00000000
> >>         801F91EC  00000001
> >>         801F91F0  00000003
> >>         801F91F4  00000454
> >>         801F91F8  8000A71B
> >>         801F91FC  04080000
> >>
> >> Reboot requested, PC: 80158B91 (HALT)
> >>
> >>
> >> Has anyone any idea what is going wrong?
> >>
> >> I successfully installed VMS 7.3 from the CD on the 780. Experiments
> give
> >> a similar crash when running VMS 7.3 if I have too little memory on the
> 780
> >> (less than 32MB), but no fiddling with the amount of memory seems to
> help
> >> with VMS 4.6.
> >>
> >> I think someone out there has VMS 4.6 running, so I trust it is possible
> >> and I am doing something silly.
> >>
> >> Peter Allan
> >>
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>
> Hello!
> I believe both 4.5 (If that version did exist, I can't remember.) and
> 4.6 are indeed upgrades, and that 4.0 is the logical way to start. And
> no I do not know when the firm started its hobbyist program. It has
> been a big bone of contention regarding when that happened, not why it
> did, and what release it was wrapped around.
>
> -----
> Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
> "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
>
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