Troubleshooting RX02

From: Patrick Finnegan <pat_at_computer-refuge.org>
Date: Fri Feb 4 15:04:00 2005

On Friday 04 February 2005 15:41, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
> What's now really strange is why the computer is halting at 173204.
> How the hell did it get all the way up there?
>
> Is it possible that some other hardware in the system is conflicting
> with the disk controller?

Perhaps the controller you're using doesn't have boot roms on it? You
could try entering a bootstrap by hand to boot the system. Here's a
starting point:

http://www.shiresoft.com/pdp-11/software/bootstraps/bootstraps.html

I'm assuming that you've already figured out how to use ODT. :)

Pat
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