[Simh] Unknown processor Error

[Ray Jewhurst]

Sorry about that I fixed it.  It was a bad nvram file, I was running the
MicroVAX II simulator and the 3900 in the same directory and forgot to give
the nvrams separate names.

Thanks

Ray

On Sat, Jan 26, 2019 at 8:01 PM Ray Jewhurst <raywjewhurst at gmail.com> wrote:

> I was trying to install OpenVMS 7.3 on the VAX 3900 simulator and got the
> strangest error:
>
> >>>b dua3
> (BOOT/R5:50414548 DUA3
>
>   2..
> -DUA3
>   1..0..
>
> %BOOT-F-Unknown processor
> HALT instruction, PC: 00004EC7 (BLBS 4F49,4EC6)
>
> I have installed VMS dozens of times and have never received this error
> before. I am running the newest source and my computer runs Linux Mint 19.
> Here is a copy of my config:
>
> attach nvr nvram.bin
> ;
> set cpu 512M
> ;set qvss enable
> ;
> set rq0 rauser=8192
> set rq1 rauser=8192
> set rq2 rauser=8192
> set rq3 cdrom
> ;
> attach rq0 d0.dsk
> attach rq1 d1.dsk
> attach rq2 d2.dsk
> ;
> attach -r rq3 ovms73vaxhkit.iso
> ;
> ;
> set rl disable
> set ts disable
> ;
> set xq mac=08-00-2B-AA-BB-CC
> attach xq nat:tcp=2323:10.0.2.15:23,tcp=2121:10.0.2.15:21;
> boot cpu
>
> Any advice would be appreciated and for the record. I have to the best of
> my knowledge ran a config very similar to this in the past.
>
> Thanks
>
> Ray
>
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