Re: VS4090 fddi boot?

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From: CP/M lives!
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 15:55

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In article <1dv97cINNqe6@fnnews.fnal.gov>, jhf@d0xs1.fnal.gov (John Featherly) writes:
> 
> Tried many things, VAX console ROM is clueless about FCA0 ...
> the most promising turned out to be "t tc0 boot mop" in the MIPS emulator
> but still no go (yes I did change the hardware address on the load host).

I'm not entirely certain, but I don't think you'll be able to boot from
something in the TURBOchannel slot. I'm not sure how someone might go about
interfacing VAX VMB code to a bootstrap writting in interpreted MIPS code.

I also suspect that console drivers on a TURBOchannel modules won't work.
-- 

Roger Ivie                      "My God! That computer is full of Pentium!
ivie@cc.usu.edu                  It's a wonder that you haven't been turned
                                 into mutants!"

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From: ivie@cc.usu.edu (CP/M lives!)
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Subject: Re: VS4090 fddi boot?
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Date: 13 Nov 92 09:55:22 MDT
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