Booting an Operating System
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Example 5-1 OpenVMS Boot (Continued)
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OpenVMS (TM) Alpha Operating System, Version V7.1
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[more informational messages specific to the site]
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Accounting information:
Buffered I/O count: 79521 Peak working set size: 6080
Direct I/O count: 4042 Peak virtual size: 173104
Page faults: 4845 Mounted volumes: 23
Charged CPU time: 0 00:00:32.62 Elapsed time: 0 00:05:26.03¨
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The show boot* command shows the values of all the environment variables
beginning with the characters “boot.”
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Noting that no default boot device has been set, the user in this example issues the
command set bootdef_dev to the desired disk. This disk will be used in
subsequent boot commands that specify no device.
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The boot command is issued and the SRM console firmware begins the process of
booting the operating system.
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The SRM console displays information regarding the boot device and proceeds to
load the bootstrap code. Once this process is finished, the SRM console transfers
control to the bootstrap code.
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The date and time and operating system banner display.
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Information specific to the site is displayed (sometimes many lines). The display
ends with accounting information about the boot operation.
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The operating system display stops. Press Enter to proceed to system login.
