HP BA322 90087 - Manual (Page 46)

3.2.1 Booting the OpenVMS Alpha CD
This section explains how to boot the OpenVMS Alpha operating system CD, either from your
local CD drive, as described in
Section 3.2.1.2 (page 46) , or from a CD drive served by the
InfoServer, as described in Section 3.2.1.3 (page 46) . First, you need to identify the name of the
CD drive, as explained in Section 3.2.1.1 (page 46) . For more information about booting operations,
see Section A.1 (page 167) .
3.2.1.1 Determining the Boot Device
To boot the operating system CD, you need to determine the identity of the CD drive. Follow
these steps:
1. Insert the operating system CD into the local CD drive.
2. Enter the SHOW DEVICE command at the console prompt (>>>) and look for the correct
drive listed in the output (for example, DKA400). If you are booting from the InfoServer,
look for a device listed with its hardware address, as in the last line of the following example
(EWA0):
>>> SHOW DEVICE
dva0.0.0.1000.0 DVA0 RX23
dka200.2.0.5.0 DKA200 RZ28M 1004
dka300.3.0.5.0 DKA300 RZ29B 0016
dka400.4.0.5.0 DKA400 RRD42 442E
ewa0.0.0.3.0 EWA0 00-00-F8-1F-70-3D
For additional information, see the HP OpenVMS Version 8.4 for Alpha and Integrity Servers
Software Product Description (SPD 82.35.xx) and the hardware manuals that you received
with your Alpha computer.
3.2.1.2 Booting from the Local Drive
To boot the operating system CD from the local CD drive, enter the boot command in the following
format:
BOOT -FLAGS 0,0 source-drive
Substitute the device name of the CD drive for source-drive, such as DKA400, as listed in the
SHOW DEVICE display example in
Section 3.2.1.1 (page 46) . In this case, you would enter the
following command and press Enter:
>>> BOOT -FLAGS 0,0 DKA400
3.2.1.3 Booting from the InfoServer
To boot the operating system CD using either the InfoServer hardware or the InfoServer utility,
follow these steps. To use the InfoServer utility, certain configuration steps are required initially
(one time only), as described in
Appendix C (page 227) . The operating system CD must be mounted
systemwide.
1. Make sure that your operating system CD is being served from either the InfoServer hardware
or the InfoServer utility. If you are using the InfoServer utility, certain configuration steps
are required (one time only); see
Appendix C (page 227) .
2. At the console prompt, enter the boot command in the following format:
>>> BOOT -FLAGS 0,0 -FILE APB_084 lan-device-name
Substitute the name of the local area network device for lan-device-name, such as EWA0,
as listed in the SHOW DEVICE display example in
Section 3.2.1.1 (page 46) .
The APB file name is the unique file name that was assigned to the APB.EXE file when it
was copied from the operating system CD to the InfoServer. This file is the name of the APB
program used for the initial system load (ISL) boot program.
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