The boot Command
The boot Command
Description
The
boot
command initializes the system and starts the boot
program, which loads and starts the operating system software.
Command
Syntax
Issue the
boot
command using the following syntax:
>>> boot
<-flags> <-filename> boot_device
Return
Command
Description
The
boot
command and its parameters are described in
Table 9–4.
Table 9–4 Boot Command Parameters/Qualifiers
Parameter Specified as Description
-flags
-fl
<value> ASCII string of up to 23 characters.
-filename
-fi
<filename> A filename of up to 23 characters,
used when booting to specify the
name of a file to load into the
system. The filename must be
enclosed in quotation marks and
typed in exactly the form recognized
by the boot device.
boot_device Device name,
such as DKA200
A device from which the system
attempts to boot.
Default Boot
Flags
If you do not use the
-fl
parameter with the
boot
command,
the system uses the boot flag value stored in the environment
variable
boot_osflags
, which defaults to 0,0.
Information about using boot flags is provided in your operating
system documentation:
Using Console Commands 9–9
