Loading the binaries directly in to sing as extracted from tape has worked for me on the 8600 sim.
Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 22, 2017, at 16:35, Mark Pizzolato <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Friday, September 22, 2017 at 3:55 PM, Bob Eager wrote: >> Oh, hang on. 'boot tq0' is surely not correct. You do 'boot cpu' and then >> specify the boot device in a console command. > > Actually, neither "boot cpu" , nor "boot tq0" are meaningful commands > with the VAX8600 simulator. There were no "naturally" or "DEC supported" > bootable tape devices on the original VAX 8600 system and therefore there > is no simulation of things which never worked. In theory, someone could > write a tape boot program and it could be loaded into the CPU memory and > started execution, but I don’t know of any such program. > > If you followed instructions regarding how Quasijarus was originally > installed > on a VAX 8600, then it should work the same as it did on the original > hardware. > I suspect that by the time Quasijarus was put together, the MicroVAX systems > were prime targets for system installs, and no or very little effort was put > into > getting this stuff to work on the older VAX systems. > > Good luck. > > - Mark > >> On Sat, 23 Sep 2017 00:10:12 +0200 >> Dario Niedermann <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hello! I'm running "VAX 8600 simulator V4.0-0 Beta" (git commit id: >>> c8a420ad) on a Linux/x86_64 host. I've installed 4.3BSD Quasijarus on >>> an empty RA90-sized disk image, following the instructions at: >>> >>> <http://www.tavi.co.uk/unixhistory/quasijarus.html> >>> >>> But I could never get the VAX 8600 emulator to boot... >>> >>> From TQ0, attached to the .tap file provided at the site, emulator >>> says "Command not allowed" when I give 'boot tq0'. 'sho tq all' >>> returns "Controller is not initialized", while 'sho tq' outputs: >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> TQ TU81 (180MB), address=2013F940-2013F943, no vector, BR5, 4 >>> units >>> TQ0 attached to /home/ndr/lib/emu/quastape.tap, read only, >>> write locked, SIMH format >>> capacity=188MB >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>> Is this due to the .tap file being (probably) made with the MicroVAX >>> 3900 emulator? >>> >>> Issuing 'boot rq0', the emulator's output is: >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> Loading boot code from internal vmb.exe loading boot >>> ra(0,0,0,34): bad adaptor number >>> boot failed >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>> Is it because I used the MicroVAX 3900 emulator to install BSD on the >>> virtual ra0? >>> >>> TIA for any help... > > _______________________________________________ > Simh mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
