Re: VAX station 4000 boot disk

[Nicolas Joly <njoly%pasteur.fr@localhost>]

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 09:15:05PM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 10:39:50PM +0100, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> > Broken/bad boot block? Or no secondary boot (/boot) on the disk? I would 
> > definitely start by trying to rewrite the boot block (see installboot 
> > and disklabel), and check that I have a correct boot image in the root.
> 
> Yes, indeed that was it - though I have no idea how it broke. I used
> installboot, boot and xxboot from 5.1.2 and that got me going again.

I just made a small test with -current sources. An iso image build
with gcc 4.1 (HAVE_GCC=4) boot just fine under simh, but one compiled
with gcc 4.5 (default, HAVE_GCC=45) does not.

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Nicolas Joly

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