Installation guide

Booting 4-13
1‘
Set boot_reset on to initialize the system before booting.
2
If you boot from the same boot device each time, you can store the disk
name by defining the default boot device. This is done by using the set
bootdef_ dev command. The default boot device is used for booting
during power-up and auto restarts.
3
Use set boot_osflags to define the boot command flag parameters of
0, 6, and 7. The APB/VMB option of 7 is made up of the combination o
f
bits 0, 1, and 2 as shown in Appendix B. The flags can also be specified
as done in step 6.
4
Booting can now be done from that device by typing boot or just b.
5
Use the create command to create the environment variable work.
The -nv option stores the environment variable work in a nonvolatile
EEPROM.
6
This is an example of booting from a system that is part of a VMSclus-
ter. To boot from the cluster system disk, a nickname is created by
equating the boot parameters to an environment variable as shown. A
nickname is used so boot parameters do not have to be entered each
time the system is booted.
7
Used to set the auto_action environment variable so the system will
restart after an error halt.
8
Booting can now be done from that device by typing boot work.
For more information:
Console Reference Manual