Show device displays information about each I/O device. Polling
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checks the XMI bus for device configurations. The next line contains
three columns. The first column contains the console device name. The
second column displays the name of the device given by the device con-
troller. The third column shows the device type.
In the boot command, -fl indicates that additional command parame-
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ters follow, 4 is the booting system root on the cluster system disk, 0
is the bootstrap option, du is the device code of the boot device, a is
the boot device controller designation, and 20 specifies the unit num-
ber of the boot device. The 14 is the HSC controller node number
that the boot device is connected to, 0 is the channel number, 2 is the
XMI node number, and 0 is the I/O channel number.
The system boots standalone backup.
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The operating system banner appears.
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For more information:
OpenVMS Alpha Version 1.0 Upgrade and Installa-
tion Manual
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