[Info-vax] SimH VAX780

[Bob Eager]

On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:33:34 UTC, "Bob Eager" <rde42 at spamcop.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:52:17 UTC,   VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> 
> > In article <176uZD2KcidF-pn2-m681WXrjdbP3 at rikki.tavi.co.uk>, "Bob Eager" <rde42 at spamcop.net> writes:
> > >On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:24:32 UTC, 
> > >koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) wrote:
> > >
> > >> In article <00A8FE03.9B74E9E4 at SendSpamHere.ORG>,   VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG writes:
> > >> > Does anyone have SimH V3.8-? that runs on Linux of Mac?  I have
> > >> > a Mac version of V3.8-0 but when I go to boot it, I get segement-
> > >> > ation fault.
> > >> > 
> > >> > I did:
> > >> > 
> > >> > set rq0 ra90
> > >> > set cpu 128m
> > >> > attach rq0 vms.dsk
> > >> > boot rq0
> > >> > 
> > >> > Several other goole searches said 'boot cpu' but that only gets
> > >> > me an 'invalid argument'.
> > >> 
> > >>    I'm sill running 3.7-x, but don't you still need an NVR file?
> > >
> > >The NVR file is optional, but the VAXone does require ka655x.bin (or 
> > >similar) which has to be loaded first. What I have here is (comments to 
> > >the right should NOT be included):
> > >
> > >set console brk=10                                                makes 
> > >Ctrl-P work
> > >set cpu 64M
> > >set cpu conhalt
> > >attach nvr nvram.bin                                             see 
> > >below
> > >load -r ka655x.bin                                                    
> > >load boot ROM
> > >set rl disabled
> > >set rq0 ra81
> > >set rq1 ra81
> > >set rq2 ra81
> > >set rq3 cdrom
> > >attach rq0 k:\vms\ra81.dsk
> > >attach rq1 k:\vms\perf_test.vdisk
> > >attach rq3 k:\vms\vms73.img
> > 
> > Why do you escape the v,r, and p with \?  :roll:
> 
> Eh? I haven't a clue what you are referring to...do you have a codepage 
> problem, and see something different?

Oh, I see now...bad joke about pathnames....that particular simh isn't 
on one of my Unix systems (or on Windows or DOS either, come to that...)

My brain is too tired...been rolling out upgrades to most of my Unix 
systems at home since the weekend..

-- 
Bob Eager