If you are working from the same media I have, then I think the 4.6 media are an upgrade only and you will need to install an earlier version first. I think I installed 4.0 first.
Regards Rob On 27 December 2010 12:30, Peter Allan <[email protected]> wrote: > I have managed to get hold of some versions of VMS, mostly VMS 4.X and I am > trying to install VMS4.6 on an emulated 780 using simh. > > The sequence I have followed is: > > Boot using the VMS 7.3 CD > > Run BACKUP to copy the REQUIRED saveset from the VMS 4.6 emulated tape to > an RA81 disk with the command > BACKUP/VERIFY MTA0:REQUIRED/SAVE DUA0: > > However, when I boot from the RA81, expecting the installation sequence to > continue, I get > > VAX/VMS Version KG 15-Jun-1987 10:00 > > > **** FATAL BUG CHECK, VERSION = KG INVEXCEPTN, Exception while above > ASTDEL or on interrupt stack > > CURRENT PROCESS = SWAPPER > > REGISTER DUMP > > R0 = 00000008 > R1 = 04080000 > R2 = 00000000 > R3 = 00000000 > R4 = 80002748 > R5 = 00000000 > R6 = 00000000 > R7 = 00000000 > R8 = 00000000 > R9 = 00000000 > R10= 00000000 > R11= 00000000 > AP = 00000000 > FP = 00000000 > SP = 801F91D0 > PC = 80004862 > PSL= 04080009 > > KERNEL/INTERRUPT STACK > > 801F91D8 00000004 > 801F91DC 00000000 > 801F91E0 FFFFFFFD > 801F91E4 00000000 > 801F91E8 00000000 > 801F91EC 00000001 > 801F91F0 00000003 > 801F91F4 00000454 > 801F91F8 8000A71B > 801F91FC 04080000 > > Reboot requested, PC: 80158B91 (HALT) > > > Has anyone any idea what is going wrong? > > I successfully installed VMS 7.3 from the CD on the 780. Experiments give a > similar crash when running VMS 7.3 if I have too little memory on the 780 > (less than 32MB), but no fiddling with the amount of memory seems to help > with VMS 4.6. > > I think someone out there has VMS 4.6 running, so I trust it is possible > and I am doing something silly. > > Peter Allan > > _______________________________________________ > Simh mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh >
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