Compaq DS20E - AlphaStation - 1 GB RAM User Manual page 47

Example 3–5 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 4.3 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 3.2). See
Section 4.18 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 4.5 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
4.18 for information about environment variables.
The operating system banner displays.
Operation 3-13