[Info-vax] Itanium boot menus, was: Re: WIN AN RX2660 ~~~THE GREAT INTEGRITY GIVE AWAY !!!

[Simon Clubley]

On 2014-09-02, Paul Sture <nospam at sture.ch> wrote:
> On 2014-09-02, VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG <VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG> wrote:
>> In article <de3b55e9-9ee5-495e-96bd-d5a23d2dc10b at googlegroups.com>,
>> Hein RMS van den Heuvel <heinvandenheuvel at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>>It booted right up, just fine. 
>>>Here is that dream-machine on the dining table:
>>>
>>>http://www.encompasserve.org/~hein/P1040035_1024X768.JPG
>>
>> I love the apropos Magic Hat in there.  ;)
>>
>>>A minute later it had the DECwindows screen and I logged onto the
>>>pre-installed, and pre-patched OpenVMS 8.4.
>>
>> Now, if they'd (HP) only do away with that cheese, circa 1992, 
>> WEENDOZE 3.none looking EFI menu.  What year is this???
>
> That looks more like DOS than Windows to me.
>
> 1992 sounds about right though. Note the oh-so-sexy-for-then border
> shadowing. :-)
>

It's functional, it will only require a (relatively) small amount of
code to implement and presumably it boots from an onboard flash chip
which means you have a fixed amount of space for the boot code.

How big is the onboard flash for the Itanium systems and do you
really want to waste a part of it implementing a pretty GUI ?

Note: no Itanium experience here, so I don't know how large the
onboard flash is.

Simon.

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