Booting RSX-11M On A PDP-11/34

From: Tom Uban <uban_at_ubanproductions.com>
Date: Sun Jun 10 08:17:46 2001

It could also be the serial line configuration. You may need to set the
terminal for ignore parity, 7 bits, or something like that...

--tom

At 05:04 AM 6/10/01 -0700, you wrote:
>>I have pretty much no experience with DEC systems, or at least PDP-11s
>>anyway. I have an 11/34 with three RL01 drives (only two are connected). The
>>system works fine, I get the register printout on the console LA120, and I
>>can examine, deposite, etc. When I put the RSX-11M pack in the RL01 drive,
>>and ready it, I don't get any fault ligtht or anything. When I get
>>everything set up, I tell the system to boot from drive 0. The light on the
>>drive flashes rapidly, and I can hear it spinning. Then I get a lot of line
>>feeds on the console, along with a few seemingly random characters, usually
>>lower case Rs, Ss, and Ms. So, if anyone can tell me what I am doing wrong,
>>or what I need to be doing, I would greatly appreciate it.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Owen
>
>It sounds to me as if you're doing everything right. You're just not
>getting the output on the console you should be. This has me wondering a
>few things.
>
>Did you get everything as a whole or is this something you're trying to put
>together from a variety of sources? If you did get this as a whole, is it
>put together in the same manner it was when this was a working
>configuration. Do you have all the packs mounted that were normally
>mounted when it was in a working condition.
>
>What version of RSX-11M? Do you know the actual state of your disk pack?
>
>Do you have a terminal besides the LA120? Do you have Serial lines besides
>the one the LA120 is on?
>
>Do you have hardware documentation on the 11/34?
>
>Now for anyone reading this, can the 11/34 do something funky like change
>the speed of it's console line without having to use hardware jumpers? I
>don't think it can, but from the fact that all that's being printed out,
>that's my first thought, however, the fact everything looks to work before
>trying to boot RSX this doesn't look to be the problem.
>
> Zane
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