Compaq DS10L - AlphaServer - 256 MB RAM Reference Manual page 28

Example 1–6 Booting OpenVMS from a Local Disk (Continued)
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The OpenVMS system is now executing the site-specific startup commands.
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Welcome to OpenVMS (TM) Alpha Operating System, Version V7.1-2
Username:
The show device command displays device information. See Section
2.3.2 for a description of the show device command and the device
naming convention.
The boot_reset environment variable was previously set to "on,"
causing the power-up trace to display when the system initializes (see
Section 1.2). See Section 2.18 for commands used with environment
variables.
The bootdef_dev environment variable specifies the default boot
device. In this example, the default boot device was previously set to
dka200.2.0.7.1.
No boot device is specified in the boot command; the default boot
device was set with the environment variable. See Section 2.5 for a
description of the boot command.
The boot command accepts the name of a boot device, a boot file
name through the -file option, and boot flags through the -flags
option. The environment variables bootdef_dev, boot_file, and
boot_osflags can also be used to specify the default boot device or
device list, the default boot file, and flag information. When an option
and the corresponding environment variable are both in a command
string, the option overrides the environment variable. The value of
the environment variable, however, is not changed. See Section 2.18
for information about environment variables.
The operating system banner displays.
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