[Info-vax] Alpha Personal Workstation 433au -

[David Turner]

IIRC, you type ARC at the >>> prompt
Then the BIOS is F2


On 11/6/2019 3:02 PM, thedavegray at gmail.com wrote:
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> Hello,
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> 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".
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> Is this fixable?
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> 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.
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> I'm pretty sure this has OpenVMS installed, because the the eBay advert showed it booted to OpenVMS.
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> Any advice gratefully received.
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> Thanks
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> PS - I'm almost certain this was, ahem, pilot error and that I trashed the boot block/sector when "messing" around with the BIOS.
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