HP BA322 90087 - Manual (Page 167)

A Booting and Shutting Down Your OpenVMS Alpha System
This appendix applies to Alpha systems only and explains how to halt, boot, and shut down the
operating system. It also includes related information, such as setting the system for automatic
booting and using the Writeboot utility. This appendix also includes brief troubleshooting
procedures.
This appendix contains the following information:
•
Booting operations, including the following:
— Booting the operating system CD locally and from an InfoServer system
— Booting manually from the system disk
— Performing a conversational (interactive) boot
— Booting with minimum startup
— Booting with the XDelta utility (XDELTA)
— Booting from a different directory
— Booting with a PMAZB or PMAZC TURBOchannel adapter
— Booting over the network with an alternate TURBOchannel adapter
— Booting in an emergency
• Set, Show, and WRITEBOOT operations, including the following:
— Setting the system for automatic booting
— Setting and showing boot devices
— Setting boot parameters
— Writing a new boot block
• Halt and shutdown operations
• Troubleshooting procedures
For the latest hardware documentation for Alpha computers, see the documents at:
http://www.hp.com/go/alphadocs
A.1 Booting Operations
The following sections describe different methods of booting your OpenVMS Alpha system.
A.1.1 Booting the OpenVMS Alpha Operating System CD
If you need to boot the OpenVMS Alpha operating system CD, either to perform an installation
or upgrade or to perform related operations such as mounting or backing up the system disk,
perform the steps in the following sections, depending on whether you are booting locally or
from the InfoServer.
A.1.1.1 Booting from the Local Drive
Boot from the local drive as follows:
1.
Insert the operating system CD into the local CD drive.
2. At the console prompt (>>>), enter the SHOW DEVICE command so you can identify the
name of the CD drive (for example, DKA400:)
3. Enter the boot command in the following format:
BOOT -FLAGS 0,0 source-drive
Substitute the device name of the CD drive (as listed in the SHOW DEVICE display) for
source-drive.
For example, if the SHOW DEVICE display lists the device name of your CD drive as DKA400,
enter the following command and press Enter:
>>> BOOT -FLAGS 0,0 DKA400
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