[pups] "/unix is not the running version." ??

[pups] "/unix is not the running version." ??

[Robert Armstrong]

> Unfortunately the autoconfig stuff has /unix hard coded into 
> it and will only look for this file.

  Thanks, guys, for the answer.  I've got to admit that I'm disappointed.
If you have to decide, before the old system goes down, via a series of
moves or copies or hard links or whatever, which kernel you're going to use
the next time the system comes up, then it doesn't seem all that useful.

  I guess if I build a kernel that just doesn't work at all, I can always
boot the old kernel far enough to get to single user mode where I can remove
the dud /unix, put the old one back, and then reboot.  That's something.

  Anyway, if that's the way it is, then that's the way it is :-)  Thanks
again.

Bob

[pups] "/unix is not the running version." ??

[David Evans]

On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 07:58:20AM -0800, Robert Armstrong wrote:
> > Unfortunately the autoconfig stuff has /unix hard coded into 
> > it and will only look for this file.
> 

...

>   Anyway, if that's the way it is, then that's the way it is :-)  Thanks
> again.
> 

  I suppose some enterprising soul could "fix it"...

-- 
David Evans
Faculty of Computer Science                     dfevans at bbcr.uwaterloo.ca
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada  http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/

[pups] Getting P11 up on redhat

[Robin Birch]

Hi Everyone,
I'm having a bit of fun getting P11 up on redhat.  Has anyone got a copy 
of AS11 that they could send me as I want to rebuild everything 
including the boot rom to make sure that I've got it as right as I can.

Cheers

Robin
-- 
Robin Birch

[pups] "/unix is not the running version." ??

[robinb]

Right idea, wrong way round :-)

Copy your /unix to something like /unix.save and then call your new image /unix.

Unfortunately the autoconfig stuff has /unix hard coded into it and will only look for this file.

Cheers

Robin

bob at jfcl.com wrote:
> Guys,
> 
>   Thanks for the help with my dzq11 problem - I'm glad to see that there are
> still people around running PDP-11 Unix.  Now that I've actually started
> using my 11/73, I've run into several things that I just don't know how to
> fix.
> 
>   Like this one - I built a non-networking kernel (my normal /unix kernel
> has DEQNA and TCP/IP support) using the NONET example that comes with
> 2.11BSD.  No particular problems there.
> 
>   Since I don't actually want to overwrite my /unix file, I can't use "make
> install" to install the nonet kernel, and so I just say "cp unix /nonet" and
> then chmod /nonet to set the protections.  This might have been my mistake,
> but I don't know any other way to do it without trashing my real /unix
> kernel.
> 
>   To boot the nonet kernel, at the ":" boot prompt I type "nonet".  All is
> well until we get up to init, and then it says
> 
> 	autoconfig: /unix is not the running version
> 	init: configuration setup error
> 
> And then I'm stuck in single user mode with no devices configured.  Not
> especially useful.
> 
>   Is my mistake in just "cp"ing the nonet kernel, or is there some
> limitation on booting files other than /unix?
> 
> Thanks again,
> Bob Armstrong
> 
> 
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[pups] "/unix is not the running version." ??

[Robert Armstrong]

Guys,

  Thanks for the help with my dzq11 problem - I'm glad to see that there are
still people around running PDP-11 Unix.  Now that I've actually started
using my 11/73, I've run into several things that I just don't know how to
fix.

  Like this one - I built a non-networking kernel (my normal /unix kernel
has DEQNA and TCP/IP support) using the NONET example that comes with
2.11BSD.  No particular problems there.

  Since I don't actually want to overwrite my /unix file, I can't use "make
install" to install the nonet kernel, and so I just say "cp unix /nonet" and
then chmod /nonet to set the protections.  This might have been my mistake,
but I don't know any other way to do it without trashing my real /unix
kernel.

  To boot the nonet kernel, at the ":" boot prompt I type "nonet".  All is
well until we get up to init, and then it says

	autoconfig: /unix is not the running version
	init: configuration setup error

And then I'm stuck in single user mode with no devices configured.  Not
especially useful.

  Is my mistake in just "cp"ing the nonet kernel, or is there some
limitation on booting files other than /unix?

Thanks again,
Bob Armstrong