Booting An Operating System; Example 5-9 Tru64 Unix Boot (Abbreviated) - HP AlphaServer TS15 Owner's Manual

5.11 Booting an Operating System

The boot command boots the Tru64 UNIX or OpenVMS operating system. You can
specify a boot device, operating system-specific boot information (boot flags), and an
Ethernet protocol for network boots. You can also specify whether the boot program
should halt and remain in console mode.
Example 5–9 Tru64 UNIX Boot (Abbreviated)
>>> boot dka200
boot dka200.2.0.1.2 -flags a)
block 0 of dka200.2.0.1.2 is a valid boot block
reading 14 blocks from dka200.2.0.1.2
bootstrap code read in
base = 314000, image_start = 0, image_bytes = 1c00(7168)
initializing HWRPB at 2000
initializing page table at 5fff0000
initializing machine state
setting affinity to the primary CPU
jumping to bootstrap code
UNIX boot - Wednesday October 16, 2002
Loading vmunix
.
.
The system is ready.
Compaq Tru64 UNIX V5.1B (Rev. 2650) (QA0005.mro.cpqcorp.net) console
login:
The boot command initializes the processor, loads a program image from the specified boot
device, and transfers control to that image. If you do not specify a boot device in the
command line, the default boot device is used. The default boot device is determined by the
value of the bootdef_dev environment variable, described in Chapter 3.
If you specify a list of boot devices, a bootstrap is attempted from each device in order.
Then control passes to the first successfully booted image. In a list, always enter network
devices last, because network bootstraps terminate only if a fatal error occurs or when an
image is successfully loaded.
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