Ahh! I thought mail'd died here, so I reset the machine.
On Mon, 3 Nov 1997, Tim Shoppa wrote:
>
> Um - what's wrong with the bootstrap at
>
> http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/academic/computer-science/history/pdp-11/bootstraps/
> mscp_rt11.txt
>
> ?
It died, same failure. Got tired of toggling it in and failing every
time. I plan to burn it on a ROM and stick it in in place of the RX boot
rom. (I already had it, and assumed I was toggling it in wrong.
>
>
> I don't think so. Are all the cables "black" cables? If so, it ought to
> work.
Yes.
>
> Given that you're getting a BUS ERR, I'm willing to bet that you don't
> have bus continuity done up right. Which slots are the UDA50 cards in?
> What are in the other slots? Which slots have the NPR jumpers removed?
>
Oh, crud. The UDA is in slots 14 and 15. There are 18 slots, as follows:
1 M8266
2 M8265
3 M8267
4 M9312 + M7859
5 M7891
6 GCJ
7 M8256
8 GCJ
9 M7856
10 M9202 + GCJ
11 M7819
12 M7819
13 GCJ
14 M7486
15 M7485
16 GCJ
17 Tape controller (Non-DEC)
18 M9302 + GCJ
> Once you do get it working, the RT-11 BOOT command only will boot
> up other RT-11 volumes. BOOT/FOR is supposed to boot other (foreign)
> OS's. What OS is on this RA drive that you're trying to boot?
>
RSTS/E (It came from the 44)
Received on Mon Nov 03 1997 - 18:13:57 GMT