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Address of RL02 bootstrap in PDP 11/84 boot ROM

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From: Bill Edwards
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 1986 14:05
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I would like to make my 2.9 BSD kernel auto-reboot on a PDP-11/84,
and would prefer to do that by making boot.s jump directly to the
right bootstrap in the boot ROM.  Unfortunately, I do not know the
address to jump to.  Has anybody out there in netland done that?
Thanks very much in advance!
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From: edwards@h-sc4.harvard.edu (Bill Edwards)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.2bsd,net.unix-wizards
Subject: Address of RL02 bootstrap in PDP 11/84 boot ROM
Message-ID: <155@husc6.HARVARD.EDU>
Date: Fri, 8-Aug-86 10:05:09 EDT
Article-I.D.: husc6.155
Posted: Fri Aug  8 10:05:09 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 9-Aug-86 10:47:59 EDT
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Distribution: world
Organization: Harvard Science Center
Lines: 13
Keywords: autoboot, boot.s, jmp
Summary: Is there a PDP wizard in the house?