> On Mar 10, 2016, at 2:54 PM, Pete Turnbull <p...@dunnington.plus.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/03/2016 19:28, Richard Cini wrote:
>> Thanks Mattis. The system in question has 32kw of memory and it does
>> pass the memory test.
>>
>> I have not tried to boot the resulting DD image on SIMH but the
>> original RK image does boot.
>>
>> I feel I'm close but I'm missing something. I may try 5.3 instead.
>
> I've got various RX01, RX02, RL01 and RL02 disks with RT-11 v2, 4.0 and 5.2,
> 5.3, 5.4 and 5.7 and run them on real hardware. It's a long time since I've
> run v2, but the rest all run on my 11/73 as far as I remember. It may depend
> on the exact config (SYSGEN) but it certainly won't work unless you have
> exactly the right boot block on the media.
V2 doesn't have sysgen. But yes, the boot block is device specific (at least
in the early versions, I don't have experience with the later ones). You can
use PIP to write a boot block of your choosing.
paul
