Booting The Operating System - DEC AlphaServer 1000A Owner's Manual

Booting the Operating System

You may need to perform some of the following tasks before booting your operating
system.
Run the EISA Configuration Utility.
Check required environment variable settings.
Change the way your system powers up or boots.
Verify your configuration.
The remainder of this section contains more information about each of these tasks.
Running the EISA Configuration Utility
If you have added, removed, or moved an EISA or ISA card, you must run the EISA
Configuration Utility before booting the operating system. Refer to "EISA
Configuration Utility" under "EISA and ISA Options" in Chapter 6 of this guide for
more information.
Checking Required Environment Variable Settings
If you are running the Digital UNIX or OpenVMS Alpha operating system, verify
the value of the
set to "new."
You may also want to check that settings for the following variables match your
configuration. The SRM console command to reset each variable is shown in
parenthesis. To see a complete list of environment variables, type show * at the
SRM console prompt.
Operating system (set os_type)
Ethernet device type (set ew*0_mode)
Speed for Fast SCSI devices (set pk*0_fast)
Boot device (set bootdef_dev)
Boot flags (set boot_osflags)
Device names (set bus_probe_algorithm)
Network protocols (set ew*0_protocols)
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set bus_probe_algorithm
environment variable. It should be
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