jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao) (12/27/85)
In article <1209@brl-tgr.ARPA> eichelbe@nadc.arpa writes: > Has anyone been able to install Sys V.2.2 on a VAX 11/780 without >having an RP06, RM05, RM80, or an RP07 at NEXUS 8 (MBA 0) ? Because of a bug in the boot code l e n g t h , if they are using the s5r2v2 boot block you cannot boot with an RM80 or an RP07, either! The table at the end of the block gets truncated. However, I believe that they have the s5r2v1 or s5r1v2 boot block on the tape. Fix: delete all the code that checks sash's header, since it does not have one! I.e. (roughly): :/# r0 is cleared by the movc5 instruction/+1;/exec:/-1d >(2) We use the VAX to run 4.1 BSD when we're not struggling late at night to > bring up things like Sys V. The 4.1 BSD system likes everything just where > it is. > Ideas, suggestions? Jon, I booted s5r2.0v2 using s5r2.0v1, because it was more convenient that way. (It turned out that the above bug would've caught the RP07 any- way.) I booted Ultrix 1.0 using BSD4.1c because I couldn't do it with the Ultrix boot tape, and 1.1 using 1.0 because it was convenient. I suggest you boot s5r2v2 using BSD4.1 by simply dd'ing the root image onto an rm03; and then if you can't boot from that or mount that and compile a new Unix (the SysV and BSD4.1 FS's are quite similar), "just" read in the /usr/src/uts stuff from the /usr tar tape, monkey the dfile and the makefiles to allow you to compile it the way you want it, and boot the new unix from your 4.1. From there, you're on your way! -- Joe Yao hadron!jsdy@seismo.{CSS.GOV,ARPA,UUCP}
eichelbe@nadc.arpa (01/03/86)
Has anyone been able to install Sys V.2.2 on a VAX 11/780 without
having an RP06, RM05, RM80, or an RP07 at NEXUS 8 (MBA 0) ? I have an RM03
there, and the UNIX tape boot loader will not let you install the tapes
without one of the above-mentioned disk drives where they want it! AT&T will
not return my phone calls. The only other disk drives I have are on MBA 2
and are CDC 9766 drives on an SI controller (similar to RM05's). Of course,
I don't know whether the SI controller would get in the way if I tried to
install onto a 9766, but that doesn't even matter since the disk drive has to
be at NEXUS 8. I don't want to try to put the SI controller on MBA 0 since
(1) I don't know whether the tape boot loader would work even after I did that;
(2) We use the VAX to run 4.1 BSD when we're not struggling late at night to
bring up things like Sys V. The 4.1 BSD system likes everything just where
it is.
Ideas, suggestions?
Jon Eichelberger
eichelbe@NADC.ARPA