RL02 booting

utzoo!decvax!cwruecmp!ordy utzoo!decvax!cwruecmp!ordy
Wed Sep 22 00:41:24 AEST 1982


	I have an 11/44 (3/4 meg.) with RL02's and TS11 tape. I have
had 2.8 up for about a month with no problems (after getting it going).
I now find as I am trying to rearrange the kernel again that the boot
programs are sensitive to name/physical blocks of the booted system!
That is I can boot '/unix', but if I copy /unix to '/nunix' (or anything else),
it won't boot, even though the executable is obviously (by the copy)
the same. The renamed system panics in iinit with a Data Late disk
error. My guess is that the 'funky' RL02 is left in a state where it
sometimes does not work depending on the previous command.

	In addition, recompiling the boot program (1kboot) produces
an executable which is different, and in fact does not appear to work
like the distributed binary.

	Any mailed help/suggestions would be appreciated. In
addition, has anybody upgraded the 2.81 RL02 driver with overlapped
seeks to actually work with 2.81??? Small changes are required, but
I just as soon not do it if somebody has already made the changes.

	Greg Ordy (decvax!cwruecmp!ordy)



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