[Info-vax] Alpha Personal Workstation 433au -

[thedavegray at gmail.com]

Hello, 

Just got hold of a Digital 433au workstation which apparently has OpenVMS v8 on it, however I cannot get it to book from dka0 as it says "dka0.0.0.1004.0 is not a valid boot block" - "bootstrap failure".  

Is this fixable? 

Also how do I get into the BIOS?  I tried F5, F6 and CTRP-P at boot but it just goes to SRM.  I know there's a graphical BIOS on it because that was what came up when I first booted it and it was set to Windows NT. 

I'm pretty sure this has OpenVMS installed, because the the eBay advert showed it booted to OpenVMS. 

Any advice gratefully received. 

Thanks 

PS - I'm almost certain this was, ahem, pilot error and that I trashed the boot block/sector when "messing" around with the BIOS.