Need help configuring DZQ11s on 2.11BSD for VCF!

[Zane H. Healy]

At 2:12 PM -0700 10/31/05, Kevin Handy wrote:
>iirc, the 11/73 has a simple boot console that has some commands
>similiar to the VAX console commands. This is before you drop
>to ODT. Normally you give it a "B du0" type of command.
>(Been a while since I used real hardware, so ymmv)
>Does the boot console (SHOW DEVICE?) display the devices?

It will depend on the board as to just how much info you're able to 
get from the console on a PDP-11.  The full quad-height board (which 
seems to be much rarer), will have lots of features, and might be 
able to give some info on the devices (it's been a couple years since 
I did anything other than boot mine).

The more normal dual-height board will depend on the board with the 
boot strap.  As an example, my /73 originally used a dual-height 
board, and I used a DLV11J for the console port, and a WQESD/04 for 
the boot strap (even after I moved from ESDI to SCSI disks).  With 
that combo, I had a working system, but it provided no info, just a 
bootstrap.

		Zane



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