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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">I have had the 780 emulation running on my Raspberry Pi for some time now. Recently I have had intermittent problems with vmb.exe, the problem seems to have become permanent now though. I have re-copied vmb.exe to the machine but the problem persists. Here is the log:</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">pi@raspberrypi:~$ sudo ./vax780</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">VAX780 simulator V3.9-0</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">libpcap version 1.1.1</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Eth: opened OS device eth0</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Debug output to "STDOUT"</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Loading boot code from vmb.exe</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">%BOOT-F-Unable to locate BOOT filesim> q</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Goodbye</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Eth: closed eth0</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Debug output disabled</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">The error about being unable to locate the BOOT file happens</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">about 40 seconds</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">after the “Loading boot code from vmb.exe” message.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Any ideas?</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Regards</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Rob</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN></P>
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