[Simh] Fwd: 4.3BSD Quasijarus0c on the VAX-11/730

[Christian Gauger-Cosgrove]

Bah, I just noticed shortly after sending the message that it was only
pointing at Mark and Cory not the list reflector. That has been
rectified none the less.

Apologies, and have a great day.

Regards,
Christian


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Christian Gauger-Cosgrove <captainkirk359 at gmail.com>
Date: 2 July 2014 08:36
Subject: Re: [Simh] 4.3BSD Quasijarus0c on the VAX-11/730
To: Mark Pizzolato <Mark at infocomm.com>, b4 at gewt.net


Many thanks to Cory for figuring out the magic needed to get the
Quasijarus standalone boot to work on the 780. It makes sense now that
I look at it. Although I'm having some difficulty getting past the
initial boot-label-disk-and-restore-root phase. Are there any copies
of the VAX-11/780 console diskette out there (the original DEC one)?
Labelling the RP07 I installed to with the hpboot / boothp
bootblock(s) doesn't result in a bootable disk (BOOT RP0 doesn't
work), so I'd like to try it the way the Quasijarus manual says it
should be done (create a modified console floppy that boots the RP07
disk).


In other news, I have had some assistance getting Quasijarus up and
running on the 11/730 --- which is where my end goal is in this
endeavour. If one extracts the standalone boot and copy from the
srcsys.tar archive they can be loaded into the 730's memory via LOAD.
(At location 0, of course, and then starting the sim from 2.) But I
have run into some difficulty with the RB730 simulation. There might
be a bug in it, I am uncertain, but on the initial boot of the system
it gets stuck in an infinite loop of "idc0: lost interrupt".


I've packaged up a copy of my simulator config, as well as the
relevant Quasijarus files:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/69943308/Quasijarus-730beta.zip
(12.7MB)

To copy from the tape on the 11/730:
sim>load copy 0
sim>run 2
copy
ts(0,1)
To: rb(0,1)
Copy completed: 308 records copied

Exception in interrupt or exception, PC: D4500000
sim>


And to boot the freshly copied R80:
sim> reset
sim> d r10 0
sim> d r10 0
sim> d r10 1
sim> d r11 0
sim> load boot 0
sim> run 2

Boot
: rb(0,1)/vmunix
326312+104440+130352 start 0x23b8
4.3 BSD Quasijarus UNIX #3: Sat Feb 14 20:31:03 PST 2004
    root at luthien.Harhan.ORG:/nbsd/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
real mem  = 5242880
SYSPTSIZE limits number of buffers to 134
avail mem = 4145152
using 134 buffers containing 366592 bytes of memory
VAX 11/730, ucode rev 123
mcr0 at tr0
uba0 at tr3
idc0 at uba0 csr 175606 vec 250, ipl 15
rb0 at idc0 slave 0
rb1 at idc0 slave 1
zs0 at uba0 csr 172520 vec 224, ipl 15
ts0 at zs0 slave 0
dz0 at uba0 csr 160100 vec 300, ipl 15
dz1 at uba0 csr 160110 vec 310, ipl 15
lp0 at uba0 csr 177514 vec 200, ipl 14
root device? rb0*         <--- Enter "rb0*" here.
idc0: lost interrupt       <--- This error repeats infinitely.


So, I'm not quite sure what's wrong with the RB730, but at least one
is able to partially get QUasijarus up and running on the 11/730.


Kind regards,
Christian


--
Christian M. Gauger-Cosgrove
STCKON08DS0
Contact information available upon request.


-- 
Christian M. Gauger-Cosgrove
STCKON08DS0
Contact information available upon request.