Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!romp!auschs!awdprime!doorstop.austin.ibm.com!tif From: tif@doorstop.austin.ibm.com (Paul Chamberlain) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix Subject: Re: How to force booting from a floppy on RT after changing NVRAM? Message-ID: <3127@awdprime.UUCP> Date: 10 Aug 90 18:58:38 GMT References: <8207@ncar.ucar.edu> Sender: news@awdprime.UUCP Reply-To: tif@doorstop.austin.ibm.com (Paul Chamberlain) Organization: IBM AWD, Austin, TX Lines: 20 >In article <8207@ncar.ucar.edu> karl@tobago.cgd.ucar.edu (Karl Sierka) writes: >I stupidly changed the NVRAM in my RT to boot from who-knows-what. How do >I get the thing to boot from the diags diskette in the floppy drive? Man keyboard gives the following possibilities, I'm thinking that you could use these after turning the machine on (even though it won't boot): Ctrl-Alt-Home ... If diskette #1 ... that virtual machine is IPLed. ... The system first checks diskette drive #1 for a valid IPL record, then the second device, then each of the fixed disks. Ctrl-Alt-A ... Designates diskette drive #1 as the second device ... Ctrl-Alt-B ... Designates diskette drive #2 as the second device ... Ctrl-Alt-C ... Designates fixed-disk drive #1 as the second device ... Ctrl-Alt-D ... Designates fixed-disk drive #2 as the second device ... Ctrl-Alt-E ... Designates fixed-disk drive #3 as the second device ... Paul Chamberlain | I do NOT represent IBM tif@doorstop, sc30661@ausvm6 512/838-7008 | ...!cs.utexas.edu!ibmaus!auschs!doorstop.austin.ibm.com!tif