DEC AlphaServer 8200 Installation Manual page 93

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3)
Install or upgrade layered product(s)
4)
Execute DCL commands and procedures
5)
Shut down this system
Enter CHOICE or ? to repeat menu:
Show device displays information about each I/O device. Polling
1
checks the KFTIA for device configurations. The next line contains
four columns. The first column contains the device type and unit
number, node number, device channel number, the internal PCI node
number, and I/O channel number, separated by periods. The second
column displays the name of the device given by the device controller.
The third column shows the device type, and the fourth column shows
the revision of the device. The CD drive in this case is the RRD44
and its mnemonic is DKD400.
In the boot command, -flags indicates that additional command pa-
2
rameters follow, 0 is the system root of the boot device, 0 is the boot-
strap option, dk is the device code of the boot device, d is the boot
device controller designation, and 400 specifies the hexadecimal unit
number of the boot device. The 4 is the node number, 0 is the chan-
nel number, 5 is the PCI node number, and 0 is the I/O channel
number.
The system boots OpenVMS from the CD-ROM.
3
The operating system banner appears.
4
Example 7-8 shows that several choices can be made when booting Open-
VMS in this fashion. Make the appropriate choice and continue. (Note
that by choosing option 4 (Execute DCL commands and procedures) you
can back up your system disk. Standalone backup is replaced by this
method of booting OpenVMS.)
Diagnostics and Utilities 7-23

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