[Info-vax] OpenVMS 6.2 on SimH hangs on boot

[Chris Scheers]

Single Stage to Orbit wrote:
> On Tue, 2023-11-14 at 00:05 -0600, Chris Scheers wrote:
>>> Thanks, that was most helpful in getting back in. However, I've
>>> just discovered the reason why it wasn't working is that somehow
>>> the ethernet support never got compiled in when it was upgraded
>>> some years ago. Guess I need to fix it and give Gentoo a tongue
>>> lashing as this definitely used to work in the past.
>> If you are still stuck, check your version. SIMH 3.9 for VAX runs 6.2
>> just fine.
>>
>> The SIMH 4.x variant is in many ways a fork of 3.9 and may show
>> issues.   It has been several years now, so I hope that 4.x has been 
>> straightened out, but I haven't tested it in a while.
> 
> I tried 3.12, it had the same problems. Tried 4.0 and it worked out the
> box. I'll be filing a bugzilla with gentoo to bump to latest and get
> ethernet sorted. 


That's interesting.  I'm glad it is working for you.

I'm using 3.9 here. I don't remember for sure, but I suspect that I 
built it myself to make sure it had the options I wanted.

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