Booting real RT11 on a Heath H-11

From: Tony Duell <ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
Date: Sun Jul 25 23:09:39 2004

> Actually, I want to do something similar to Ethan's old boss, except
> that I plan to add a hard disk by using a Dilog DI-602 card. It
> attaches to a standard MFM disk and emulates a RL02 controller and, best
> of all, it's only a double module. It'll fit the backplane easily.
>
> The only problem is that the boot ROMs, which are on the WH-27 card,
> don't know how to boot a RL02. Any ideas?

I seem to remember that if you configure RT11 with the RL11 handler
(DL.SYS IIRC) and boot that (e.g. from RX01 floppies) you can then do a
BOOT /FOREIGN DL0: to boot the RLs.

Or of course you should be able to type in the RL02 bootstrap using
console ODT, but that becomes a right pain fast!

-tony
Received on Sun Jul 25 2004 - 23:09:39 BST