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

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <jcsrvdF97deU1 at mid.individual.net>, "Michael Kraemer @ home"
<M.Kraemer at gsi.de> writes: 

> Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> > Due to some planned but notified-us-at-short-notice maintenance on the 
> > electricity supply today, I noticed that a battery in a personal 
> > workstation had gone bad and thus doesn't know what to boot after the 
> > power came back on.  Had I had more notice I would have thought of this 
> > and found my notes.  :-(
> 
> my notes say:
> 
> 1. Replace battery
> 2. In the AlphaBios setup, press F2 to choose CMOS setup
> 3. Choose F6 for "advanced setup", this allows to select SRM console
> 4. Press F10 to save the changes and PowerOff/On

That's correct, and works fine from a graphics console.  IIRC there was 
some trick to get the menu working in the serial console.  But maybe 
MMINLWC (my memory is no longer working correctly).