Re: AlphaBios 5.66: LX now auto-booting without keyboard attached!

[Greg Lindahl <lindahl cs virginia edu>]

> > This is a nice theory, but AlphaBIOS already has serial support; it
> > just happens to have gotten broken a while ago.
> 
>  Great, but how does it work then?  I am really interested.  Is it
> menu-driven or command-line driven?  If the former, how does it deal with
> dumb terminals (or ones it has no idea about)?

This is a Digital product -- you have to have a vt100, of course.

Seriously, it's menu driven, and it's there today. On my systems
(5.62-1a or whatever), however, it won't take any input, and it
ignores the timeout for auto-boot. Presumably that's what's fixed.

-- g