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

[Gregg Levine]

On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Peter Allan <petermallan at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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."
>
>

Hello!
Fine. I received an e-mail off list which seemed to want to contradict
what I posted earlier, despite my disclaimers. I will wait for your
next one.

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Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."