Digital Equipment DEC 3000 600 AXP, Service Information

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BOOT Command Parameters
Table 13–1 OpenVMS AXP and DEC OSF/1 AXP Device Naming
Conventions
OpenVMS AXP
Convention DEC OSF/1 AXP
Convention
Description
dd dd Device name identifier
i i Designates SCSI
controller (A/B)
u u Designates SCSI ID
number
nn Logical unit number is
always 00; LUN must
be two digits
For example, a disk device on SCSI controller A with a SCSI ID
of 4 and an LUN of 0 would have the following OpenVMS AXP
device naming convention:
DKA600
Note
BOOT commands can either be in OpenVMS AXP or
DEC OSF/1 AXP format when the system is operating
under either OpenVMS AXP or DEC OSF/1 AXP. Two
command syntaxes are available so as to match the
current OpenVMS AXP and DEC OSF/1 AXP syntaxes.
Qualifiers
-fl <value>
ASCII string up to 23 characters.
-fi <filename>
Used when booting across a network device to specify the name
of a file to load into the operating system. The filename is
limited to 23 characters. Note that the filename must be in
quotes.
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