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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 4/27/2022 4:19 PM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> 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.

It is a long time since that PWS rolled off the assembly line ...

:-)

Arne