[Info-vax] x86 Update 4/22/19

[clair.grant@vmssoftware.com]

On Friday, May 3, 2019 at 2:19:19 AM UTC-4, Michael Moroney wrote:
> Jon Pinkley <jon.pinkley at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> >On Wednesday, May 1, 2019 at 6:15:04 AM UTC-4, clair... at vmssoftware.com wrote:
> >> On Wednesday, May 1, 2019 at 3:11:22 AM UTC-4, Michael Moroney wrote:
> >> > This close...
> 
> >> > $ sh def
> >> > sh def
> >> >   DMM0:[SYSEXE]
> >> > $
> 
> >I assume the first line is debug output verifying that DCL received the command line?
> 
> Yes, plus lots of debug output you didn't see.
> 
> >I was expecting to see another disk device besides DMM0.  I didn't think DMM0 was 
> >to be the "system" disk, only the boot(strap) disk, used only by the Boot Manager 
> >and the Dump Kernel.
> 
> Still the plan. We're skipping the switching to the real system disk and staying 
> with the memory disk for now, so that issues with a real disk driver won't slow
> things down (more).

In addition to putting everything we need for First Boot in the memory disk, we have also loaded some code as execlets to get them permanently in memory early. We will undo these two things for Real Boot.

As Mike stated, no changes in the plan.