[HECnet] RSX-11M v4.1 SYSGEN - OK, I give up - what am I doing wrong?

[Steve Davidson]

(14) Highest Interrupt Vector.   The default is zero (0).   I am pretty
sure that must be changed to reflect the hardware installed.

-Steve 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE 
[mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Johnny Billquist
Sent: Monday, March 11, 2013 17:31
To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Cc: Bob Armstrong
Subject: Re: [HECnet] RSX-11M v4.1 SYSGEN - OK, I give up - 
what am I doing wrong?

On 2013-03-11 21:37, Bob Armstrong wrote:
    I'm trying to SYSGEN an 11M 4.1 system from the distribution on 
RL01s using a dual RL PDP-11/23+ (which is simh in this case, so I 
know the hardware works).   I'm letting it autoconfigure and 
I'm taking 
pretty much the default answer for everything.   The build 
seems to go 
without error and yet the resulting system crashes as soon as it 
boots.   I give up - what am I doing wrong?   Somebody give 
me a clue, please!   The simh log is attached.

When RSX is building the system, it at one point creates the 
new system image to run, called [1,54]RSX11M.SYS.

The relevant line is

PIP RSX11M.SYS/CO/NV/BL:498.=RSX11M.TSK

Now, your machine only have 128kW. That is 256 kByte. Of 
this, 8 kByte goes away because of the I/O page. Leaving 248 
kByte. This is 496 disk blocks.

It *might* be that your disk file is too big, making the 
system assume that it can place stuff in memory that don't 
exist. RSX11M.SYS is pretty close to just a memory dump.

Try creating a new RSX11M.SYS, which is a bit smaller, and 
then rerun the VMR command, and try booting that file instead 
and see if that helps?

	Johnny