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

[chris]

On 04/27/22 16:25, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> OK.  Not sure why the startup is so slow, but things seem to be working
> fine again.  (Perhaps the fact that I'm not using the fastest hardware I
> have is a factor!)
>
> Interestingly, according to OPERATOR.LOG there was a full shadow copy
> (not minicopy) of a 36-GB disk, but it took only a few seconds.  Never
> seen that before.  Things were shut down properly.  There was definitely
> activity on the disk after the other two nodes came up.
>
> What happened?
>
> Could it be that bitmaps were created when the other two nodes booted
> and the full copy was actually only a minicopy?
>

My guess would be that the video monitor may not respond to serial port
input, that is, either serial port or kbd / monitor modes, not both. It
may default to serial port if no keyboard detected...

Chris