Explanation
Example 3-4 on the preceding page shows a boot from a CD-ROM on a local drive. 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, >>>.
2.
Set boot environment variables, if desired. See Section 3.1.
3.
Install the boot medium. For a network boot, see Section 3.5.
4.
Enter the
show device
command
X
to determine the adapter ID and 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 the preceding example, the
boot
command with
the
-flags
option
Y
causes the system to boot from [SYS0.SYSEXE] on device dqa0.
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