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From: "David_Snyder.WBST208P"@XEROX.COM
Newsgroups: comp.sys.xerox
Subject: Standalone VP booting
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Date: 2 Nov 88 19:17:48 GMT
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I have a standalone 1186 with Lisp, VP, and SystemTools (not Othello or
Installer), and am having problems booting VP because of not being able to
get the time.

My limited understanding is that there is a set-time boot file in the
Scavenger partition which queries for the time, and then boots User
somehow.  I'm unclear whether it boots User because of PV pointers or uses
switches.  At any rate, the PVs currently point to SystemTools (so I get it
on an F1/F1-0 boot) and Lisp.  If I try to boot User from SystemTools (the
only way I know of to do it) I get an 0937.

Is there someway I can set up PVs and switches so that I can boot Scavenger
to run the set-time boot file, then have it run SystemTools, such that if I
boot User from SystemTools, User will have the time?  I can get to User now
by booting Installer off of floppies, but I'd like to be able to get to it
from SystemTools, or at least without having to use floppies.

Thanks for any help!

P.S.  If there were a way to copy Lisp sysouts from {DSK}<Lispfiles> to a
Lisp partition I wouldn't need SystemTools, and presumably wouldn't have as
bad a problem.  I have never been able to do this sort of copying using
Othello.  Is there something I've missed?