<div dir="ltr"><div>I took a quick look at this under Ultrix 4.3, where the same problem occurs. There are Ultrix 4.3 sources, so that makes things somewhat easier. The panic occurs in ubarelse(), which releases uba resources.<br><br></div><div>Unfortunately, as far as I know, the Ultrix linker does not have a way to produce a link map. You can at least see what the function addresses are by using "nm -n" on the kernel you're running.<br><br></div><div>-Henry</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 6 July 2015 at 15:41, Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Mark@infocomm.com" target="_blank">Mark@infocomm.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Hi Mattis,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">I’m working with the disk image you provided. I see the failure on the VAX750 simulator.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">What is the root password on this disk?<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Do you know if any sort of link map is available from this kernel build?<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Have you tried earlier versions of Ultrix on the 750 simulator? As I recall, I think I once came across Ultrix sources for some prior versions. It would seem that the VAX750 would be supported pretty much back at the beginning so, if we can reproduce this failure on a version with sources we’d have more to go on.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">I initially look at the crash message:<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">sim> b rq0<u></u><u></u></span></p><span class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Loading boot code from vmb.exe<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Ultrixboot - V4.0 Sat Mar 31 04:11:56 EST 1990<u></u><u></u></span></p><span class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Loading (a)vmunix ...<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Sizes:<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">text = 593304<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">data = 100864<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">bss = 320516<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Starting at 0x2d4d<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">ULTRIX V4.0 (Rev. 161) System #1: Thu May 20 23:26:51 GMT+0100 1976<u></u><u></u></span></p></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">real mem = 15728640<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">avail mem = 12378112<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">using 384 buffers containing 1572864 bytes of memory<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">VAX 11/750, hardware level = 0x9c, microcode level = 99<u></u><u></u></span></p><span class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">mcr0 (MS750) at address 0xf20000<u></u><u></u></span></p></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">mba0 at address 0xf28000<u></u><u></u></span></p><span class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">0 mba's not configured<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">mba0 at address 0xf2a000<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">0 mba's not configured<u></u><u></u></span></p></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">uba0 at address 0xf30000<u></u><u></u></span></p><span class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">uda0 at uba0<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">uq0 at uda0 csr 172150 vec 774, ipl 15<u></u><u></u></span></p></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">dz0 at uba0 csr 160100 vec 300, ipl 15<u></u><u></u></span></p><span class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">machine check 2: non-existant reference error<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"> sumpar = 2<u></u><u></u></span></p></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"> va = 80001a90<u></u><u></u></span></p><span class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"> errpc = 0<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"> mdr = 0<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"> smr = 0<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"> rdtimo = 0<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"> tbgpar = 0<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"> cacherr = 0<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"> buserr = 140008<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"> mcesr = 0<u></u><u></u></span></p></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"> pc = 80087c61<u></u><u></u></span></p><span class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"> psl = 4150008<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"> mcsr = 140000<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">I note that the PC mentioned is: 80087c61.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">If I do the following:<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"> sim> BRE 80087c61<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"> sim> SET CPU HISTORY=300<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"> sim> B RQ0<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Execution flows up to the indicated address and if I single step from there, the exception is taken.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">The instruction which causes the exception is:<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"> BISL2 #60000001,(R0)<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"> And R0 contains:<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">But the instructions executed prior to the failing instruction seems to be walking through some memory structures, which no real clue yet exists as to what it might be trying. Hence, my request for a link map and also to try and reproduce this with an OS version that has source…<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><span>-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Mark<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a name="14e64e2e54acd984__MailEndCompose"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></a></p><div style="border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt"><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #e1e1e1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Simh [mailto:<a href="mailto:simh-bounces@trailing-edge.com" target="_blank">simh-bounces@trailing-edge.com</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Mattis Lind<br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, June 21, 2015 1:42 PM<span class=""><br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:simh@trailing-edge.com" target="_blank">simh@trailing-edge.com</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Simh] Booting the vax750 simulator.<u></u><u></u></span></span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><span class=""><p class="MsoNormal">2015-06-21 18:22 GMT+02:00 Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm <<a href="mailto:Mark@infocomm.com" target="_blank">Mark@infocomm.com</a>>:<u></u><u></u></p><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #cccccc 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Hi there Mattis,</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Well, what you’re asking for (running model specific diagnostics) has been out of scope for all of the simh VAX simulators. The scope has been to be able to run operating system and application software that ran on these systems. If you had source code for the diagnostic you’re trying to run maybe some understanding of why it fails on both the real hardware and what might be needed in the simulator to support it would be possible….</span><u></u><u></u></p></div></div></blockquote><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Unfortunately I don't have the source for the diagnostic. It is a pain and that was one of the reasons for trying the simulator in the first place. But I certainly understand that it is quite different to simulate it to pass a diagnostic which tries to do all sorts of strange things than running a real operating system. <u></u><u></u></p></div><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #cccccc 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">As for Ultrix 4.0 on the VAX750 simulator, well I haven’t explored the documentation, but it might be possible that by the time Ultrix 4.0 came along, it never got tested on the older hardware. Does this disk image boot using the VAX780 and VAX8600 simulators?</span><u></u><u></u></p></div></div></blockquote><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal">This kernel I built was only microvax II and VAX-11/750 so it won't directly boot on a 11/780 nor a VAX8600. But if I add a line CPU "VAX780" and CPU "VAX8600" it boots on both.<u></u><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">But still no-go on vax750. I even tried to remove some more optional features in the kernel config but no difference. Still boot on vax780, microvax2 and vax8600 simulator though.<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Here is the image I tried : <a href="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/96935524/Datormusuem/VAX11-750/ultrix3.dsk" target="_blank">https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/96935524/Datormusuem/VAX11-750/ultrix3.dsk</a><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">/Mattis<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p></div></span><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #cccccc 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">-</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;color:#1f497d"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Mark</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a name="14e64e2e54acd984_14e16eda060a3b4c__MailEndCompose"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"> </span></a><u></u><u></u></p><div style="border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt"><span class=""><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #e1e1e1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Simh [mailto:<a href="mailto:simh-bounces@trailing-edge.com" target="_blank">simh-bounces@trailing-edge.com</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Mattis Lind<br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, June 21, 2015 1:10 AM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:simh@trailing-edge.com" target="_blank">simh@trailing-edge.com</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Simh] Booting the vax750 simulator.</span><u></u><u></u></p></div></div></span><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p><div><span class=""><p class="MsoNormal">2015-06-19 16:33 GMT+02:00 Johnny Billquist <<a href="mailto:bqt@softjar.se" target="_blank">bqt@softjar.se</a>>:<u></u><u></u></p><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #cccccc 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal">I would suggest you start off by creating the system using a simulated uVAX II, as that can boot from tape. Once you have the system running. move the disk over to an emulated 11/750, and continue playing from there.<u></u><u></u></p></blockquote><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">I did as Johnny recommended and then I got VMS 6.1 working on the vax750 simulator. Getting Ultrix 4.0 to work seems to be harder. I made a kernel config with just the uda and dz drivers. Exactly the same kernel boots just fine in the microvax2 simulator, but it fails on me in the vax750 simulator. Anyone got Ultrix 4.0 working on the vax750 simulator?<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Since another of the reasons for using the vax750 simulator is to understand how the diagnostics work (since the Cache/TB fails on the real machine. Either there is areal fault or possibly some kind of incompatibility between the board set I have and the diagnostic).<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">It would be very useful if they could run in the simulator as well. Anyone succeeded in running the diagnostics in the vax750 simulator?<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p></div></span><div><span class=""><div><p class="MsoNormal">sim> boot rq0<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Loading boot code from vmb.exe<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p></div></span><div><p class="MsoNormal">Ultrixboot - V4.0 Sat Mar 31 04:11:56 EST 1990<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Loading (a)vmunix ...<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Sizes:<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">text = 664356<u></u><u></u></p></div><span class=""><div><p class="MsoNormal">data = 113152<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">bss = 342256<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Starting at 0x2b4d<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p></div></span><div><p class="MsoNormal">ULTRIX V4.0 (Rev. 161) System #2: Wed May 19 13:29:37 GMT+0100 1976<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">real mem = 8388608<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">avail mem = 5818368<u></u><u></u></p></div><span class=""><div><p class="MsoNormal">using 204 buffers containing 838656 bytes of memory<u></u><u></u></p></div></span><div><p class="MsoNormal">VAX 11/750, hardware level = 0x9c, microcode level = 99<u></u><u></u></p></div><span class=""><div><p class="MsoNormal">mcr0 (MS750) at address 0xf20000<u></u><u></u></p></div></span><div><p class="MsoNormal">mba0 at address 0xf28000<u></u><u></u></p></div><span class=""><div><p class="MsoNormal">0 mba's not configured<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">mba0 at address 0xf2a000<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">0 mba's not configured<u></u><u></u></p></div></span><div><p class="MsoNormal">uba0 at address 0xf30000<u></u><u></u></p></div><span class=""><div><p class="MsoNormal">uda0 at uba0<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">uq0 at uda0 csr 172150 vec 774, ipl 15<u></u><u></u></p></div></span><div><p class="MsoNormal">dz0 at uba0 csr 160100 vec 300, ipl 15<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><div class="h5"><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">machine check 2: non-existant reference error<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> sumpar = 2<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> va = 80001890<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> errpc = 0<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> mdr = 0<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> smr = 0<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> rdtimo = 0<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> tbgpar = 0<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> cacherr = 0<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> buserr = 140008<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> mcesr = 0<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> pc = 800991c1<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> psl = 4150008<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> mcsr = 140000<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">cpu 1 panic: mchk<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">locks held by cpu 1 <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">print locks held by non-active processes<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">done<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">***************************<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">cpu 1 register dump <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">sp = 800017d4 ap = 80001850 fp = 80001830<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">pc = 80084a88 ksp = 7ffffe88 usp = 7fffc800<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">isp = 80001780 p0pr = 80bd8c00 p0lr = 00000000<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">p1br = 803d8e00 p1lr = 001fffe4 sbr = 000bde00<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">slr = 00008d9a pcbb = 00111a00 scbb = 00000600<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">ipl = 0000001f astlvl = 00000004 sisr = 00000000<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">iccs = 00000041<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">interrupt stack:<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">80001780: 800aa989 800017ac 00000001 8010190c <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">80001790: 801018d8 80101998 800b44ba 00000080 <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">800017a0: 00000178 00000020 00000000 20000000 <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">800017b0: 80001818 800017d4 8004a0e2 00000003 <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">800017c0: 800b44b5 00000001 800017e4 00000002 <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">800017d0: 00000000 00000000 * 2fff0000 80001850 ap <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">800017e0: 80001830 fp 80084a88 pc 00000000 r0 0000001f r1 <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">800017f0: 00000001 r2 8000197c r3 00000026 r4 00000000 r5 <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">kernel stack:<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">7ffffe88: 00000000 2fc00000 7ffffee0 7ffffec4 <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">7ffffe98: 80009bad 00000000 80189f54 00000000 <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">7ffffea8: 00000000 00000000 80189f54 00000003 <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">7ffffeb8: 80189f54 00000014 800edd18 00000000 <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">7ffffec8: 2c000000 7fffff14 7ffffeec 80076967 <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">7ffffed8: 80e0509c 800925d4 00000001 80189f54 <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">7ffffee8: 00000000 00000000 2f800000 7fffff48 <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">7ffffef8: 7fffff30 80092914 00000000 801285d8 <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">7fffff08: 00000000 800bdd48 80e05000 00000003 <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">7fffff18: 800925d4 00001701 80e0509c 00000000 <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">7fffff28: 00000000 80e02400 00000000 28000000 <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">7fffff38: 7fffff6c 7fffff58 80092746 00000006 <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">7fffff48: 00000003 00001701 800e7cc8 00000000 <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">7fffff58: 00000000 20000000 7fffff94 7fffff78 <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">7fffff68: 8003d454 00000001 00001701 800e7cc8 <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">7fffff78: 00000000 2c000000 7fffffb8 7fffff9c <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">7fffff88: 8003cde3 007ff800 00000006 00000000 <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">7fffff98: 800a8a58 00000000 2c000000 7ffffff8 <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">7fffffa8: 7fffffcc 8003c49d 007ff800 00000006 <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">7fffffb8: 00000000 00000000 00000000 800e9cc0 <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">7fffffc8: 00000000 00000000 2fc00000 00000000 <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">7fffffd8: 00000000 80003042 00000000 00000000 <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">7fffffe8: 00000000 00000000 007ff800 00000000 <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">7ffffff8: 00000001 0000089b <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">dump area improper<u></u><u></u></p></div></div></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p></div><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #cccccc 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><div><div class="h5"><p class="MsoNormal"><br> Johnny<u></u><u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><br><br>On 2015-06-19 16:14, Mattis Lind wrote:<u></u><u></u></p></div></div></div></div><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #cccccc 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><div><div class="h5"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Hello!<br><br>I am in the process to revive an VAX-11/750 machine but since I have no<br>tape (nor install tapes) drive my idea was to create an image which I<br>could transfer to a SCSI disk and then use a MSCP SCSI controller to<br>boot the machine.<br><br>I thought it would be a good idea to use the SimH vax750 simulator to do<br>this work. But I encounter problem. Many of these problems are probably<br>due to the fact I am not very familiar with SimH. Although I think I<br>read though several documents and studied the source code.<br><br>The booting process of the SimH vax750 simulator seems to differ from<br>the real VAX-11/750. On the real thing when I insert console media and<br>boot it it will read and I get a BOOT58> prompt. This doesn't happen at<br>all on the simulator. Instead it seems that it preloads vmb.exe and then<br>execute it.<br><br>The images I have been using was found on<br><a href="http://iamvirtual.ca/VAX11/VAX-11-software.html" target="_blank">http://iamvirtual.ca/VAX11/VAX-11-software.html</a><br><br>All tests below is run using SimH from github compiled on MACOS.<br>Although I have also tested to compile it on Linux with the same result.<br><br>This is what happen on the simulator:<br><br>sim> boot td0<br>Loading boot code from vmb.exe<br><br><br><br>Please remove the volume "CONSOLE" from the console device.<br><br>Insert the first standalone system volume and enter "YES" when ready: YES<br><br>Resuming load operation on volume "CONSOLE", please stand by . . .<br><br><br>1 BRK AT 00001C50<br>00001C50/CF00FB01<br><br>It seems some kind of command line is active since I get this output<br>when I press some random keys:<br><br><br>EH?<br>EEE<br>00000EEE /8AAF9552<br><br><br>--------<br><br>Booting a standalone backup works OK if I don't follow the instructions<br>to replace the console media the first time.<br><br><br>sim> attach td0 /Users/mattis_lind/Downloads/BE-CT97A-BE.TAP<br>TD: writing buffer to file<br>TD: buffering file in memory<br>sim> boot td0<br>Loading boot code from vmb.exe<br><br><br><br>Please remove the volume "SYSTEM_1" from the console device.<br><br>Insert the first standalone system volume and enter "YES" when ready: YES<br><br>Resuming load operation on volume "SYSTEM_1", please stand by . . .<br><br><br>Please remove the volume "SYSTEM_1" from the console device.<br><br>Insert the next standalone system volume and enter "YES" when ready:<br>Simulation stopped, PC: 000083D8 (MFPR #20,R0)<br>sim> attach td0 /Users/mattis_lind/Downloads/BE-CT98A-BE.TAP<br>TD: writing buffer to file<br>TD: buffering file in memory<br>sim> cont<br>YES<br><br>Resuming load operation on volume "SYSTEM_2", please stand by . . .<br><br><br><br> VAX/VMS Version V4.0 15-SEP-1984 22:29<br><br><br>Please remove the volume "SYSTEM_2" from the console device.<br><br>Insert the standalone application volume and enter "YES" when ready:<br>Simulation stopped, PC: 80008B1F (BRB 80008B1F)<br>sim> attach td0 /Users/mattis_lind/Downloads/BE-CT99A-BE.TAP<br>TD: writing buffer to file<br>TD: buffering file in memory<br>sim> cont<br>YES<br><br>Resuming load operation on volume "BACKUP", please stand by . . .<br><br><br>%BACKUP-I-IDENT, Stand-alone BACKUP V4.0; the date is 17-JUN-1984<br>22:40:44.48<br>$<br><br>---------<br><br>Then trying to run various diagnostics images that are supposed to be<br>standalone and do read on the real thing but gives the following result:<br><br>sim> attach td0 /Users/mattis_lind/Downloads/BE-S198Q-DE.TAP<br>TD: writing buffer to file<br>TD: buffering file in memory<br>sim> boot td0<br>Loading boot code from vmb.exe<br><br><br><br>Please remove the volume "VMS Exchange" from the console device.<br><br>Insert the first standalone system volume and enter "YES" when ready: YES<br><br>Resuming load operation on volume "VMS Exchange", please stand by . . .<br><br>ECKAL -- VAX 11/750 Cache/TB Diagnostic<br>HALT instruction, PC: 00002608 (MTPR #F,#26)<br>sim> attach td0 /Users/mattis_lind/Downloads/BE-S199T-DE.TAP<br>TD: writing buffer to file<br>TD: buffering file in memory<br>sim> boot td0<br>Loading boot code from vmb.exe<br><br><br><br>Please remove the volume "VMS Exchange" from the console device.<br><br>Insert the first standalone system volume and enter "YES" when ready: YES<br><br>Resuming load operation on volume "VMS Exchange", please stand by . . .<br><br>%BOOT-F-Unable to locate BOOT file<br>HALT instruction, PC: 000004C7 (BLBS 549,4C6)<br>sim> attach td0 /Users/mattis_lind/Downloads/BE-S200I-DE.TAP<br>TD: writing buffer to file<br>TD: buffering file in memory<br>sim> boot td0<br>Loading boot code from vmb.exe<br><br><br><br>Please remove the volume "" from the console device.<br><br>Insert the first standalone system volume and enter "YES" when ready: YES<br><br>Resuming load operation on volume "", please stand by . . .<br><br>%BOOT-F-Unable to locate BOOT file<br>HALT instruction, PC: 000004C7 (BLBS 549,4C6)<br>sim><br><br>As you can see the Cache/TB diagnostic do read in and seem to execute<br>but fails. The others doesn't even seems to boot correctly. When tested<br>on the real hardware all these start (although the Cache/TB fail, alas<br>not at the same location)<br><br>Maybe the best idea is to dump out the real BOOT PROMs from the actual<br>machine an load those into memory and start those? I haven't been able<br>to test this since the machine 100 km away.<br><br><br>I did successfully boot a Ultrix-4.0 tap file from bitsavers in the vax<br>andra microvax2 simulator. But how can I do that on the vax750<br>simulator? Doing "boot tq0" give "Command not allowed". Although help<br>file indicate it is a valid command!?<br><br>Any help appreciated!<br><br>/Mattis<br><br><u></u><u></u></p></div></div></div></div><span class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">_______________________________________________<br>Simh mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Simh@trailing-edge.com" target="_blank">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><u></u><u></u></p></span></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#888888"><br><br><span class="">-- <br>Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus<br> || on a psychedelic trip<br>email: <a href="mailto:bqt@softjar.se" target="_blank">bqt@softjar.se</a> || Reading murder books<br>pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. 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