rlw@cs.purdue.EDU (Richard L Watterson) (06/01/89)
I have a MicroVax III (3200) on which I am trying to get Mt Xinu's
more release of 4.3 BSD running. The problem is that when I run the
makelabel program everything seems to be ok. However, when I try to
boot it dies complaining about executing a halt instruction. We are
using an Emulex QD33 disk controller with a CDC 9766 disk drive. The
QD33 is supposed to act like it is connected to a RA81 disk. We currently
have Ultrix running since we did not get a boot tape with the More
release. At first we were just going to use the ultrix boot stuff,
but it turns out that Mt. Xinu leaves a hole in the middle of their boot
program in which they place their disk label. The ultrix boot code does
not have a similar setup, so copying the ultrix boot program onto disk
wipes out the Mt Xinu disk label. Has anyone out there successfully
installed Mt Xinu 4.3 on a MicroVax 3200? If you have any ideas please
respond to me directly.
Richard
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Richard Watterson rlw@cs.purdue.edu
Department of Computer Science {backbone}!purdue!rlw
Purdue University
West Lafayette IN