Dennis,
On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 10:51:52AM -0400, Dennis Boone via cctalk wrote:
> To continue through to the end of the startup process, tell it:
>
> CO CONTINUE 6
The system appears to have a few more issues. After the above:
CO CONTINUE 6
OK,CO SYSTEM>DSM.SHARE.COMI 7
> OK,CO SYSTEM>ED.SHARE.COMI 7 /* Share ED editor
> Not found. (CO)
> ER!
To continue through to the end of the startup process, tell it:
CO CONTINUE 6
Until this is fixed, you'll have to use the non-shared editor, NSED,
instead of the shared editor ED.
> Thank you for
Dennis,
On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 09:20:08PM -0400, Dennis Boone via cctalk wrote:
> I was able to reproduce the issue. When I repacked these using the
> Rev. 22 MAGSAV, the install worked correctly. Here's the repacked tape
> set:
>
> https://yagi.h-net.org/m2214repack.tar.gz
I was able to res
Dennis,
On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 09:20:08PM -0400, Dennis Boone via cctalk wrote:
> I was able to reproduce the issue. When I repacked these using the
> Rev. 22 MAGSAV, the install worked correctly. Here's the repacked tape
> set:
Many, many thanks!!! I'll give these a try tomorrow.
For some
> I think I'm making progress. I don't know if I've encountered an
> emulator issue, or if the primos_22.1.4_1of3.tap tape image from
> Bitsavers is bad. I didn't encounter any errors unzipping the zip
> archive it was in. When restoring logical tape number 2 from it, I
> got an MT read err
> I think I'm making progress. I don't know if I've encountered an
> emulator issue, or if the primos_22.1.4_1of3.tap tape image from
> Bitsavers is bad. I didn't encounter any errors unzipping the zip
> archive it was in. When restoring logical tape number 2 from it, I
> got an MT read err
Dennis,
On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 05:03:01PM -0400, Dennis Boone via cctalk wrote:
> These are the essential ones:
>
> -disk -split -part -dt -badlev
>
> Some of the others have less-abbreviated forms that would work, but are
> not critical.
>
> Note that at the "Enter command line options:
> That might have worked. There were some prompt differences in the next
> section compared to the install guide:
> Partition CMDDEV created successfully.
Yup, looks good.
Background: there were some changes from rev to rev of the options to
MAKE. E.g. some abbreviations changed or appe
Dennis,
On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 04:32:00PM -0400, Dennis Boone via cctalk wrote:
> Try this instead:
>
> $ em -boot 10005
> [Prime Emulator ver 5350ae7 Feb 17 2020]
> [Copyright (C) 2005-2012 Prirun LLC pri...@gmail.com]
> Booting from file mt0
> [BOOT Rev. 23.4 Copyright (
> [CPBOOT Rev. 19.0 Copyright (c) 1990, Prime Computer, Inc.]=20=20
> [BOOT Rev. 23.4 Copyright (c) 1993, Computervision Corp.]
> RUN FILE TREENAME=3Dmake.save
> BOOTING FROM MT0make.save
> MAKECopyright (c) 1991, Prime Computer, Inc.
> Enter command line options: -d
Dennis,
On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 04:01:30PM -0400, Dennis Boone via cctalk wrote:
> If the disk container file is non-zero size, the make may have worked.
The disk container file size is zero.
> Otherwise, check the top of console.log, before the spin starts, and see
> if there's anything diagn
> something appeared to get stuck in a loop, displaying:
> Press Enter to continue, h to halt...
> over and over again. I eventually resorted to killing the emulator.
> It took a kill -9 to get it to end. In case it gives any clues,
> after killing it the error.log contained:
I've see
On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 03:22:31PM -0400, Dennis Boone via cctalk wrote:
> Of particular use might be this writeup on installing PRIMOS Revs 22 or
> 23 on the emulator. It's set up for the old demo version of the
> emulator, so needs a fair amount of updating, but may help get you
> started. I'
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