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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 4/27/2022 9:28 AM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> 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).

I had a 433au but I do not remember ever doing this. For a different
Alpha model I specifically recalled having to get a VGA monitor
attached to do some stuff.

And it sort of makes sense. AlphaBIOS = Windows NT, SRM = VMS or Tru64.
Windows NT does not support VT terminals.

Arne