From: hoffman@xdelta.zko.dec.nospam
Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 12:23 PM
To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Subject: Re: Getting to SRM on a 1200

In article <t7u8fbtknu4253@corp.supernews.com>, "Mark E. Levy" <levy@sysman-inc.com> writes:

:...I've recently acquired an AS1200 2x5/533. It apparently used to run that
:"other" "operating system." I can't seem to find a way to get it back to
:SRM. It's not one of those white NT-Only boxes...

  I've queued the following information to the FAQ, having just gone 
  through this sequence while converting an AlphaServer 800 series that 
  was running AlphaBIOS console over to SRM console.  I was using a serial 
  terminal as the console during this conversion, and had no workstation
  keyboard nor workstation display connected to the system.

  During AlphaBIOS portion of the bootstrap, press F2 to enter setup, 
  select the cmos setup item, then select F6 for the advanced setup, 
  tab and +/- to select the SRM firmware, then exit and save, then
  power-cycle and continue. 

  Here are the serial console terminal equivilents of the function keys 
  that are referenced by AlphaBIOS (or ARC) console:

         F1   Ctrl/A
         F2   Ctrl/B
         F3   Ctrl/C
         F4   Ctrl/D
         F5   Ctrl/E
         F6   Ctrl/F
         F7   Ctrl/P
         F8   Ctrl/R
         F9   Ctrl/T
        F10   Ctrl/U
     Insert   Ctrl/V
     Delete   Ctrl/W
  Backspace   Ctrl/H
     Escape   Ctrl/[
     Return   Ctrl/M
   LineFeed   Ctrl/J
   (Plus) +   upselect (some systems)
  (Minus) -   downselect (some systems)
        TAB   down arrow
   SHIFT+TAB  up arrow
 
 --------------------------- pure personal opinion ---------------------------
   Hoff (Stephen) Hoffman   OpenVMS Engineering   hoffman#xdelta.zko.dec.com