The OpenVMS Version 8.2-1 operating system includes procedures
(such as the POLYCENTER Software Installation utility) that enable
you to install the operating system easily. First, you must boot
the OpenVMS OE DVD from your local DVD drive. For this release
of OpenVMS, HP does not support booting the operating system from
the network.
Before you can boot your OpenVMS DVD, you must make sure your
console is configured correctly. You must use a serial device for
the console. OpenVMS does not support VGA graphics or USB keyboards
as console devices for booting. For information about configuring
your system console, refer to
Selecting Your OpenVMS Console for the Integrity Server System. HP recommends that you load and use the most
current system firmware. For more information about system firmware,
refer to
Firmware on Integrity Server Systems and
the HP OpenVMS Version 8.2-1 for Integrity Servers New
Features and Release Notes
. For information about other
required and optional tasks to be performed before or after booting the
system, refer to
Setting Up the Console, Booting, and Shutting Down Your System.
To boot your OpenVMS I64 operating system on a cell-based
server (Superdome, rx8620, or rx7620), note the following:
The nPartition on which OpenVMS I64 is booted must
have all memory configured as interleaved memory (memory that may
be mapped across more than one cell). For more information about
cell memory and general notes on nPartition booting, refer to
Overview of Booting on a Cell-Based Server and refer to your
hardware documentation.
You can boot the OpenVMS I64 OE DVD by following these steps.
To boot the DVD on a cell-based server, a DVD device must be accessible
for the nPartition that OpenVMS is being installed on.
Make sure your
Integrity server is powered on. If your system has an attached
external device, make sure it is turned on and operational.
Insert the DVD into the drive.
Cycle power.
From the main EFI boot menu (for cell-based servers,
this must be the EFI boot menu for the nPartition on which OpenVMS
is to be booted), select the appropriate item from the boot options
list. Note that the EFI boot menu is timed; press any key to stop
the countdown timer.
For some systems, the
boot option to select is the Internal Bootable DVD option. If that
option is not listed in your EFI boot menu, move to the Boot From
a File menu and select the Removable Media Boot option, if present.
Alternatively (and this method is recommended for cell-based
servers), boot the DVD drive from the EFI Shell prompt by entering
the command shown in the following example, where fsn:
corresponds to the Integrity server DVD drive (such as fs0:). Note
that if you have navigated to a particular file system, the EFI
Shell prompt would reflect that file system; for example, if the
current file system is fs0:, the EFI Shell prompt would be fs0:>.
Shell>fsn:\efi\boot\bootia64.efi
To determine which device is the bootable DVD drive, examine
the list of mapped devices and look for an fs device listing that
includes the letters "CDROM", as in the following line,
where fsn is the file system associated with
the drive, which is usually fs0: (instead of "fsn",
you might see something similar to "V8.2-1"; instead of Ata, you
might see Scsi, depending on the server model): fsn : Acpi(HWP0002,400)/Pci(4|1)/Ata(Primary,Master)/CDROM(Entry0) You can use the following command to display the mapping of
various EFI device names to OpenVMS device names, where fsn is
the device you want to check (such as fs0:):
Shell>fsn:\efi\vms\vms_show dev -fs
On most Integrity servers, the DVD drive is DQA0:. On systems
that include a SCSI bus, such as the Integrity Superdome server,
the DVD drive is DKA0:. For more information about the vms_show command, refer to the HP OpenVMS System Management Utilities Reference Manual
.
Remember that by default EFI interprets the Delete
(or Backspace) key differently than do OpenVMS Alpha systems or
Microsoft Windows computers. Use Ctrl/H to delete the last character
entered. For more information, refer to
Using the Delete or Backspace Key with Integrity Server Utilities.
When booting OpenVMS from the installation DVD for the
first time on any OpenVMS I64 system with a SAN storage device,
you might experience a delay in EFI initialization because the entire
SAN is scanned. Depending on the size of the SAN, this delay might
range from several seconds to several minutes.
HP OpenVMS Version 8.2-1 for Integrity Servers... 
Installing the OpenVMS Operating System
