Re: more on proff crash building native

[Anders Magnusson <ragge%ludd.ltu.se@localhost>]

Johnny Billquist wrote:
> Brad Parker wrote:
>> "David Brownlee" wrote:
>>> Whats next on the list, bootblocks? :)
>>
>> sort of :-)  full install from tape.  seems very broken right now for
>> 11/7xx.
> 
> Considering the fact that the 11/7xx machines never supported booting
> from tape in the first place, that's no surprise. :-)
> 
That's not true.  The 11/750 had boot proms to boot from up to four
different devices.  TU58 was always one, and I had one machine that
could boot from TU45.

-- Ragge


> That is, VMB can't even boot from tape. There is no way to get the
> machine to even try booting from a tape.
> 
> But I didn't know we had problems with the bootblocks. What kind of
> problems are we talking about here?
> 
>     Johnny
>