Make a disk bootable in RT-11

by david 26. March 2011 13:40

In the end it was very easy to get my winchester drive to be bootable.  I just had to read the manual really...  This was what I used:

copy/boot dk0:rt11xm.sys dk0:

The trick is to already have a copy of the boot-file (RT11XM.SYS in my case) on the disk.  The "copy/boot" command then just moves the file from one part of the disk, to the boot section.  Easy.

I used that to make my Winchester Drive bootable, so now I'm booting straight from the fixed disk.

About the author

David

I'm a C# developer having worked with .Net since it was in beta.  Before that I mainly worked in C and C++.  I have been developing commercial software for more than 20 years.  I also mess around with microprocesors, but that's just for fun.  I live near Cambridge, England and at the moment I'm contracted to one of the departments at Cambridge University.

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