can we boot vmunix off of a console-rl (4.3BSD VAX 8650)

[Chris Torek]

In article <12934 at andante.UUCP> mp at andante.UUCP (Mark Plotnick) writes:
>It would be useful to be able to boot vmunix off of the console rl,
>just to see the output of the autoconf stuff.  Is there a way to
>massage vmunix to be a standalone program that can be loaded with
>>>>LOAD, or is there a standalone driver for the console rl so that
>'boot' can read in a file from the rl's rt11 filesystem?

Writing the latter might be a good idea, but in any case, the former
is easy, if a trifle slow:

	nm /vmunix | egrep 'T start'

which will give you the entry point (needed below); then

	cd /tmp
	cp /vmunix v
	strip v
	dd if=v of=vmunix bs=32 skip=1
	rm v
	arff rvmf /dev/crl vmunix

You can then

	>>>LOAD VMUNIX/ST 0

and

	>>>ST <entry>

where <entry> is the entry point found by nm, stripped of the high
bit (e.g., 80001614 => 1614).
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