[Simh] Problems install RSX-11M+ v4.6

[Ray Jewhurst]

Sorry to be a pest but now I am getting an error.  I got the same one using
a pre-built system I found on Bitsavers.

>run bad
>
BAD>db0:
BAD -- DB0: Unrecoverable error -65.
BAD>du0:

>
>
 BAD -- DU0: Total bad blocks= 0.
BAD>^Z

>run bru
>
BRU>/rew ms0: du0:
BRU - Starting Tape 1 on MS0:

BRU - End of Tape 1 on MS0:

BRU - Completed

BRU>PuTTY


RSX-11M-PLUS V4.6  BL87   128.KW  System:"Baseline"
>RED DU:=SY:
>RED DU:=LB:
>RED DU:=SP:
>MOU DU0:"RSX11MPBL87"
>@[2,54]BASTART.CMD
12:46:19  *** GEN    Checkpoint space allocation failure
12:46:19  *** GEN    Checkpoint space allocation failure
12:46:19  *** GEN    Checkpoint space allocation failure
12:46:19  *** GEN    Checkpoint space allocation failure
12:46:19  *** GEN    Checkpoint space allocation failure
12:46:19  *** GEN    Checkpoint space allocation failure

I apologize for my lack of knowledge.  I am eager to learn but I have never
even seen a real PDP-11 let alone use one.  I am just trying to learn
vicariously through simh.

Thanks

Ray


On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 3:39 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:

> Hi.
>
> On 2017-05-07 21:30, Ray Jewhurst wrote:
>
>> Thank you very much.  For future reference is there a simh to RSX (or
>> any other OS for that matter) conversion chart for the various devices?
>> It would be quite handy.
>>
>
> I'm not aware of any. This have always been a bit of a problem in general,
> as the actual hardware have other names than the device driver names, and
> in some cases the device driver names are different in different DEC OSes.
> But since I think most people should not try and play around with odd
> disks nowadays anyway, you mostly only needs the MSCP disks, which is DU in
> all DEC OSes, as far as I can remember (except for Unix derivatives).
>
> simh is a different (new) system, with yet a different naming scheme,
> which further complicates things.
>
> simh seem to have mostly adopted the Unix driver names for the hardware
> devices. :-)
>
> Trying to create a list, while possible, is some work, since DEC had lots
> of types of devices...
>
> Start with manuals and hardware documentation. Try to figure out what
> device simh pretends, and then read the DEC documentation based on what the
> actual device was called at DEC.
>
>         Johnny
>
>
>> Thanks again,
>> Ray
>>
>> On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 3:26 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se
>> <mailto:bqt at softjar.se>> wrote:
>>
>>     On 2017-05-07 21:05, Ray Jewhurst wrote:
>>
>>         Hello everyone,
>>         I am trying to do my first installation and sysgen of RSX-11M+
>>         (actually
>>         first of any RSX-11!) and I am follow the instructions at
>>         http://www.9track.net/pdp11/rsx4_sysgen
>>         <http://www.9track.net/pdp11/rsx4_sysgen> and I am having
>>         problems right
>>         out of the gate. When I try to copy the baseline system this is
>>         what I get:
>>
>>
>>     [...]
>>
>>     Whatever instructions you are reading are wrong then.
>>
>>     How about just test that /DEV switch which is mentioned, and you'd
>>     get a list of what devices are available.
>>
>>     MSCP disks (rq and ra) are named DU, not DB. DB is RP04/05/06 disks.
>>
>>     That said, MSCP disks are good, since then you can use any size on
>>     the disk.
>>     However, I'd also set it up as an 11/93, and not 11/73.
>>
>>             Johnny
>>
>>     --
>>     Johnny Billquist                  || "I'm on a bus
>>                                       ||  on a psychedelic trip
>>     email: bqt at softjar.se <mailto:bqt at softjar.se>             ||
>>     Reading murder books
>>     pdp is alive!                     ||  tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol
>>
>>
>>
>
> --
> Johnny Billquist                  || "I'm on a bus
>                                   ||  on a psychedelic trip
> email: bqt at softjar.se             ||  Reading murder books
> pdp is alive!                     ||  tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol
>
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