HP OpenVMS 8.x Booting Operations, Alpha and Equivalent Integrity Server System Boot Commands

A.5.4 Alpha and Equivalent Integrity Server System Boot Commands

The Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) on Integrity servers performs most of the same functions that the SRM console does on Alpha processors. If you are familiar with the Alpha tool, use the following table to find EFI commands equivalent to the Alpha commands you commonly use on Alpha systems. Note that some of the commands listed might not be available on certain hardware systems.

Table A-1 Alpha and Integrity Server EFI Command Equivalents

Task	Alpha SRM command at P00>	Integrity Server EFI command at Shell prompt
	prompt
Display help	HELP	help
information
Display list and	SHOW CONFIGURATION or	info fw
version of devices	SHOW VERSION
found on the most
recently initialized
system
Display devices and	SHOW DEVICE	map
controllers in the		vms_show devices(from \efi\vms)1
system, including
bootable devices and
mappings
Display all system	SHOW FRU	info all
information		pci
		info io
Display memory	SHOW MEMORY	info mem
information
Display volume	SHOW DEV DKA0	vol fs0
information of the
file system
Display hardware	SHOW CONFIGURATION	info cpu
information about
CPU resources
Display power status	SHOW POWER	info all2
Set system dump	SET DUMP_DEV disk1,	vms_set dump_dev disk1, disk2, ... (from \efi\vms)1
disk	disk2...
Set boot flags	SET BOOT_OSFLAGS 0,0	set vms_flags "0,0"1
Set boot behavior to	SET AUTO_ACTION BOOT	bcfg boot add 1 fsx:\efi\vms\vms_loader.efi
automatic boot		"I64"1
Change the current	SET AUTO_ACTION HALT	bcfg boot mv 1 21
boot option

1Similar functionality is provided by the OpenVMS I64 Boot Manager utility (SYS$MANAGER:BOOT_OPTIONS.COM), launched at the OpenVMS DCL prompt. Regarding the display of devices, BOOT_OPTIONS.COM displays only the boot entries and also a selected dump device for DOSD and a debug device; vms_show can display all devices

mapped by the EFI console and their equivalent OpenVMS device names. The map command shows all devices currently mapped on the EFI Shell.

2Best source of information about power status is the MP PS command.

A.6 Booting Operations

This section describes various methods for booting your OpenVMS I64 operating system.

172 Configuring OpenVMS I64 Hardware Operation and Boot Operations, and Booting and Shutting Down Your System