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

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <t4bone$f31$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, chris
<chris-nospam at tridac.net> writes: 

> 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...

I had indeed forgotten to connect the keyboard the first time I saw it, 
but after I had connected it, sometimes it was there and sometimes not.