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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>It was RA92, I thought I had said so, but maybe I didn’t.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Regards<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Rob<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a name="_MailEndCompose"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></a></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> simh-bounces@trailing-edge.com [mailto:simh-bounces@trailing-edge.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Thomas Pfau<br><b>Sent:</b> 24 July 2011 12:33<br><b>To:</b> Dan Gahlinger<br><b>Cc:</b> simh@trailing-edge.com; gregg.drwho8@gmail.com<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Simh] need help with vax780 on linux<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Find out what your friend had the device type set to for this disk image and set it to the same value in your vax.ini file. I once had trouble trying to boot the emulator off of a disk image that was copied from another system. I hadn't set the device type. After I did it booted with no problem.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 12:54 AM, Dan Gahlinger <<a href="mailto:dgahling@hotmail.com">dgahling@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I don't know what platform the DSK file was created on,<br>but I can read it with ods2 on linux, and it does at least partially boot.<br><br>I have not gotten anything to boot with vax780 on my linux.<br>simh was built on this same machine.<br>I will mention the vax emulator runs fine, thats the 3900 emulator I believe.<br>but vax780 not.<br>the DSK file will not work on the vax emulator as it's a vax780 image,<br>I get an error about "incorrect processor" it doesnt even display the version banner,<br>the fact the vax780 displays the banner at least suggests its reading the DSK properly.<br><br>is there a way to debug the fatal error?<br><br>again, I know its a valid vms image in that DSK because ODS2 reads it properly.<br>or at least that suggests its proper.<br><br>I've rebuilt SIMH in several different directory trees on this machine, and get the same results.<br>as for bootup, mostly I use the standard commands as some of the vax.ini don't work.<br>heres the INI I've been using for vax780 startup, though I normally type these in manually<br>and don't use the iso attach any longer.<br><br>I went through a lot of trial and error to get things working this far,<br>using the backup commands from the ISO boot.<br>vms5.2 is the oldest I have, and 6.0 is the oldest workable ISO I have for this<br><br>load -r /usr/local/vms42/ka655x.bin<br>;<br>; Attach non-volatile RAM to a file<br>attach nvr /usr/local/vms42/nvram.bin<br>;<br>; This virtual machine has 64M memory<br>set cpu 128m<br>;<br>; Define disk drive types. RA92 is largest-supported VAX drive.<br>set rq0 cdrom<br>set rq1 ra92<br>set rq2 ra92<br>set rq3 ra92<br>;<br>; Attach defined drives to local files<br>attach rq1 /usr/local/vms42/vms42a.dsk<br>attach rq2 /usr/local/vms42/vms42b.dsk<br>attach rq3 /usr/local/vms42/vms42c.dsk<br>;<br>; Attach the CD-ROM to its file (read-only)<br>attach -r ts0 /usr/local/vms42/vms42.tap<br>attach -r rq0 /usr/local/vms42/vms6_0.iso<br><span style='color:#888888'><br>Dan.</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal> <br>> Hello!<br>> This is a long shot, but here goes, what, ah, platform was the<br>> original DSK file created on? That is what is their copy of SIMH for<br>> the Vax running on?<br>> <br>> Next why not provide for us a copy of the methods used to initialize<br>> the emulator. From that we may be able to advise you further.<br>> <br>> And this is extremely important, did you build your own copy of SIMH<br>> for this release of SUSE? Or was it built originally on a different<br>> platform?<br>> <br>> Oh and does the program run anything else properly? Other releases of<br>> what the DSK blob you're trying to boot here, contains. It could be<br>> our old friend VMS, or BSD or something we've not heard of before on<br>> that DSK and so forth.<br>> -----<br>> Gregg C Levine <a href="mailto:gregg.drwho8@gmail.com" target="_blank">gregg.drwho8@gmail.com</a><br>> "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><br>_______________________________________________<br>Simh mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Simh@trailing-edge.com">Simh@trailing-edge.com</a><br><a href="http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh" target="_blank">http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br clear=all><br>-- <br>Thomas Pfau<br><a href="mailto:tfpfau@gmail.com">tfpfau@gmail.com</a><br><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/thomaspfau">http://www.linkedin.com/in/thomaspfau</a><br><a href="http://nbpfaus.net/~pfau/">http://nbpfaus.net/~pfau/</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>