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Explanation
Example 3-4 on the preceding page shows a boot from a CD-ROM on a local drive. The
example is abbreviated. For complete instructions on booting OpenVMS, see the OpenVMS
installation document.
1. Power up the system. The system stops at the SRM console prompt, >>>.
2. Set boot environment variables, if desired. See Section 3.1.
3. Install the boot medium. For a network boot, see Section 3.5.
4. Enter the show device command
drive for your device.
5. Enter the boot command and command-line parameters (if you have not set the
associated environment variables.) In the preceding example, the boot command with
the -flags option
to determine the adapter ID and unit number of the
causes the system to boot from [SYS0.SYSEXE] on device dqa0.
Booting and Installing an Operating System
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Troubleshooting
