DEC 4000 600 series Owner's Manual page 35

For information about setting environment variables and the
values to which environment variables have been preset, refer to
What Variables Can I Set? in Chapter 4.
Boot operating system software as follows:
Boot Operating
System
Software
Step
Boot and b are abbreviations of the
enter either of these abbreviations, the value of an environment
variable (shown in parenthesis) provides the following additional
information during booting:
•
•
For information about setting or displaying the current value for
either of these environment variables, refer to Chapter 4.
For complete information about the
in Chapter 3.
Action
1 Enter boot or b at the console prompt.
>>> b
A booting system software screen (Example 1–1 or
Example 1–2) is displayed on your console terminal.
After several minutes, the operating system login
banner is displayed on your console terminal.
2 Log in to the system at the login prompt. You are
ready to begin normal operation once the operating
system prompt is displayed.
Boot device (bootdef_dev)
Boot flags (boot_osflags)
Starting the System
boot command. When you
command, refer to boot
boot
Getting Started 1–15