Compaq AlphaServer ES45 1B Owner's Manual page 105

Example 3–5 shows a boot from a CD-ROM on a local drive. The example is ab-
breviated. For complete instructions on booting OpenVMS, see the OpenVMS
installation document.
1. Power up the system. The system stops at the SRM console prompt,
P00>>>.
2. Set boot environment variables, if desired. See Section 3.1.
3. Install the boot medium. For a network boot, see Section 3.2.1.
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 Example 3–5, the boot command
with the -flags option
vice DKA0.
to determine the unit number of the
causes the system to boot from [SYS0.EXE] on de-
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