[Info-vax] Changed Boot behavior on XP1000 since 2013

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2013-01-29 17:38:52 +0000, Hans Vlems said:

> On 29 jan, 14:34, Stephen Hoffman <seaoh... at hoffmanlabs.invalid>
> wrote:
>> 
>> Something like the following (untested!) should work, if edited into
>> the nvram script
>> 
>> 10 deposit -b toy:9 0d
> 
> There is one very odd side effect. VMS is not supported on white box
> alpha's.
> To make it boot you needed two commands in nvram:
>   10 set boot_reset on
>   20 set srm_boot on
> I noticed that the nvram file was empty on this machine and VMS still
> booted alright.
> Strange.

The srm_boot command was only needed with older versions of the 
firmware for that box, AFAIK.

> But the deposit command worked its magic.

Good.

Pending a determination by HP of what they want to do with this box, at 
least there's a work-around that'll allow it to directly boot this year.

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