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Boot OpenVMS Itanium.

Greetings,

I have openvms 8.2 installed in a Integrity and am with difficulties in startup openvms.
I have some volume and not I know which this installed vms. Somebody have help me?


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Ian Miller.
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Re: Boot OpenVMS Itanium.

select the efi shell from the boot menu.

There will be devices called fs0, fs1 etc
for each file struction partion that EFI can see. (use map command to get the list).

For each do this to change that disk

fs0:
then do
cd /efi/vms
dir
if there is a vms_loader.efi in that directory then that disk is a bootable VMS system. You can boot it by

vms_loader.efi
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Arch_Muthiah
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Re: Boot OpenVMS Itanium.

Hi,

You can either use EFI Boot Manager

OR

You can run this BOOT_OPTIONS.COM - Boot Manager utility to add and validate boot options. This displays boot options known to the EFI Boot Manager.
- Add a boot option to the EFI Boot Manager so that your system disk boots automatically when the system
is powered on or rebooted.
- Remove or change the position of a boot option in the EFI Boot Manager list.
- Validate and fix the boot option list.
- Change how long EFI pauses before booting or rebooting. Hope it would be helpful..

Archunan
Regards
Archie
Antoniov.
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Re: Boot OpenVMS Itanium.

Hi Jose,
you have to eneter in EFI environment then you can type dir command on every device yoi see with map command.
Device with OpenVMS has fs:\efi\vms directory and bootable device has fs:\efi\boot\bootia64.efi file.

Antonio
http://it.openvms.org
Antonio Maria Vigliotti

Re: Boot OpenVMS Itanium.

I have the file to vms_loader.efi in fs0, fs2, blk2 and blk6. When startup the file does not happen nothing. Necessary to configure some flag?

Antoniov.
Honored Contributor

Re: Boot OpenVMS Itanium.


I have the file to vms_loader.efi in fs0, fs2, blk2 and blk6. When startup the file does not happen nothing. Necessary to configure some flag?

No, you haven't.
Why you don't see fs1: device?
Can you see fs:\efi\boot directory in each device?
I hope you did't delete SYS$EFI.SYS on your openvms disk, because in this case you can't boot more :-(

Antonio
http://it.openvms.org
Antonio Maria Vigliotti

Re: Boot OpenVMS Itanium.

I can see fs1 but not have any file/directory. I haven├В┬┤t directory \efi\boot installed.
Antoniov.
Honored Contributor

Re: Boot OpenVMS Itanium.

Hi,
those commands can help you ...

Searching boot loader (where fs: may be fs0: fs1: and so on)
EFI>dir -b -r fs:\*.efi

Vax/Alpha sho dev (where fs: is vms hd)
EFI>fs:\efi\vms\vms_show.efi device -fs

List bootable devices (where fs: is vms hd)
EFI>fs:\efi\vms\bcfg boot dump

Antonio
http://it.openvms.org
Antonio Maria Vigliotti

Re: Boot OpenVMS Itanium.

Hi,

I have fs1. The volumes are:
#####
fs1:\efi\vms> vms_show device -fs
VMS: DQA0 IDE Drive
EFI: fs0: Acpi(000222F0,0)/Pci(2|0)/Ata(Primary,Master)

VMS: DKA0 HP 73.4GATLAS10K3_73_SCAHP05
EFI: fs1: Acpi(000222F0,100)/Pci(1|0)/Scsi(Pun0,Lun0)

VMS: DKA100 HP 73.4GATLAS10K3_73_SCAHP05
EFI: fs3: Acpi(000222F0,100)/Pci(1|0)/Scsi(Pun1,Lun0)
#####

and now? I don├В┬┤t obtain loader openvms.


Ian Miller.
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Re: Boot OpenVMS Itanium.

Do you see
fs0:\efi\boot\bootia64.efi
?
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