B.5.4 Alpha and Equivalent Integrity servers System Boot Commands
The Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) on Integrity servers performs most of the same functions
that the SRM console does on Alpha processors. If you are familiar with the Alpha tool, use the
following table to find EFI commands equivalent to the Alpha commands you commonly use
on Alpha systems. Some of the commands listed might not be available on certain hardware
systems.
Table B-1 Alpha and Integrity servers EFI Command Equivalents
Integrity servers EFI command at Shell promptAlpha SRM command at P00>
prompt
Task
help
HELPDisplay help
information
info fw
SHOW CONFIGURATION or
SHOW VERSION
Display list and
version of devices
found on the most
recently initialized
system
map
vms_show devices(from \efi\vms)
1
SHOW DEVICEDisplay devices and
controllers in the
system, including
bootable devices and
mappings
info all
pci
info io
SHOW FRUDisplay all system
information
info mem
SHOW MEMORYDisplay memory
information
vol fs0
SHOW DEV DKA0Display volume
information of the
file system
info cpu
SHOW CONFIGURATIONDisplay hardware
information about
CPU resources
info all
2
SHOW POWERDisplay power status
vms_set dump_dev disk1, disk2, ... (from \efi\vms)
1
SET DUMP_DEV disk1,
disk2...
Set system dump
disk
set vms_flags "0,0"
1
SET BOOT_OSFLAGS 0,0Set boot flags
bcfg boot add 1 fsx:\efi\vms\vms_loader.efi
"I64"
1
SET AUTO_ACTION BOOTSet boot behavior to
automatic boot
bcfg boot mv 1 2
1
SET AUTO_ACTION HALTChange the current
boot option
1 Similar functionality is provided by the OpenVMS Integrity servers Boot Manager utility
(SYS$MANAGER:BOOT_OPTIONS.COM), launched at the OpenVMS DCL prompt. Regarding the display of devices,
BOOT_OPTIONS.COM displays only the boot entries and also a selected dump device for DOSD and a debug device;
vms_show can display all devices mapped by the EFI console and their equivalent OpenVMS device names. The
map command shows all devices currently mapped on the EFI Shell.
2 Best source of information about power status is the MP PS command.
B.6 Booting Operations
This section describes various methods for booting your OpenVMS Integrity servers operating
system.
B.6 Booting Operations 211
