Compaq GS160, GS80, GS320 manual Booting and Installing an Operating System

Example 6–6 shows a boot from a local disk. The example is abbreviated. For complete instructions on booting OpenVMS, see the OpenVMS installation document.

1.Power up the system. The system stops at the SRM console prompt, P00>>>.

2.Set boot environment variables, if desired. See Section 6.2.

3.Install the boot medium. For a network boot, see Section 6.2.4.

4.Enter the show device command ➊ to determine the unit number of the drive for your device.

5.Enter the boot command and command-line parameters (if you have not set

the associated environment variables.). In Example 6–6, the boot command with the -flagsoption ➋ causes the system to boot from [SYS0.EXE] on device DKA0.

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