Compaq DS10L - AlphaServer - 256 MB RAM Reference Manual page 32

The show device command displays device information, including
name and type of connection to the system. In this example the
Ethernet connection is ewa0. See Section 2.3.2 for a description of the
show device command and the device naming convention.
The boot command specifies ewa0 as the boot device. 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 prints.
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