[Info-vax] personal workstation: configure to boot VMS

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <11ca43ed-6375-426a-b9fb-c1ea77384779n at googlegroups.com>,
Steven Schweda <sms.antinode at gmail.com> writes: 

> > Does anyone remember or can can anyone point me to instructions on how
> > to get into the setup of a PWS via a serial terminal? [...]
> 
>    Which "PWS" model?

433au.  My recollection is that all "au" models are the same on this 
point.

>    My dim/unreliable recollection is that (with the dead Li cell) it
> defaults to the AlphaBIOS console, 

Right.

> and you'd need a non-serial console
> connection to get it back to the SRM.  

While powering up, at first nothing was visible on the serial console, 
then the standard stuff appeared (time invalid, no OS selected, press F2 
to enter setup, etc.).  I'm pretty sure that I once accessed that from a 
serial console, but perhaps my memory (wetware) is failing.

> I believe that I found (stumbled
> into) that option once, long ago.  Where, exactly, in the AlphaBIOS
> menus, I don't recall.

Once I get into the setup I can find it.