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

[Paul Sture]

On 2014-09-02, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
> 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.

Fair comment.  Having owned more than one Alpha PWS system, a more important
consideration is that it doesn't try to boot into BIOS/Windows when the
internal battery goes flat.

> 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 ?

Dunno and nope.  I feel suitably chastised :-)

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


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