Make sure the CD or DVD is mounted systemwide on the OpenVMS system serving as the InfoServer, and make sure an InfoServer service for the DVD drive is available on the network and accessible from your client system (the system to be booted from the InfoServer). The service should point to the server DVD drive on which the OpenVMS CD or DVD is mounted. To ensure that the InfoServer service is available on the network, use the following command:

$ MC ESS$LADCP SHOW SERVICES

The following is a sample display:

Interrogating network for Disk services, please wait...
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Disk services offered by node MOOSIC (LAD V3.1, Address: AA-00-04-00-AB-4E)

                                                   Current       Writes
Service:                      Device:      Rating: Connects:     Allowed?:
I64084                        OpenVMS      65535       0          No
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In this example, the service I64084 is the virtual disk unit that corresponds to the DVD drive on the InfoServer server named MOOSIC. This is the drive from which the OpenVMS distribution media is booted. The display shows that this service is available and that a service binding to the InfoServer DVD drive is established.

Access EFI on your Integrity servers. If you added a boot option for network (InfoServer) booting to the EFI Boot Manager options list, as described in Section C.2.2; then select the appropriate boot option from the list. To move to the option, use the up or down arrow key. (Depending on how your terminal emulator is set up, you might have to use the letter v to scroll down or the caret (^) to scroll up.) Press Enter to toggle the selection. After selecting the boot option, skip to step 3.

	NOTE: If you do not select an option within the default 10-second limit, the first option in the list is selected automatically.

If you did not add a boot option for InfoServer booting to the EFI Boot Manager options list, then initiate the boot by either following the steps in “Booting with the EFI Boot Manager” or, on some of the more recent Integrity servers, using the simpler method described in “Booting with EFI lanboot select command”.

Booting with the EFI Boot Manager

Booting with EFI lanboot select command

For OpenVMS Version 8.3-1H1 and lower:

For OpenVMS Version 8.4 and later:

An alternate to this is to setup a Directed Boot profile by specifying the flags and InfoServer service name as part of optional data in the following manner.

dbprofile -dn <profile name> -sip <server IP address> -cip <Client IP address> -m <subnet mask> -gip <gateway IP> -b <full path to VMS_LOADER.EFI in the boot server> -od “-fl 0,200400 -service I64084”

For more information on the DBPROFILE command, see the EFI online help. Now execute the lanboot select command as follows:

lanboot select -dn <profile name>

When you select the appropriate entry, you see several lines of messages and then the InfoServer boot menu (the same boot menu you would see on an Alpha system), as in the following examples. The DHCP (Dynamic Host Communication Protocol) message indicates the loading of the loader image (VMS_LOADER.EFI) that uses the EFI console to load and start the OpenVMS bootstrap (IPB.EXE). The Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) loads the bootstrap. In the first example, “Integrity servers Upgrade VIA NET” is the boot option for the InfoServer service. It was selected from the EFI Boot Manager options list (not shown). In the second example, you notice the loading of memory disk message prior to IPB load. Since the service name is pre-decided by setting the environment variable or have specified it through BOOT_OPTIONS.COM, the InfoServer service menu is not displayed in the second example.

Example C-3 DHCP Message

Loading.: Network Boot, 10/100 Running LoadFile() CLIENT MAC ADDR: 00 13 21 5H 85 E4 DHCP./ CLIENT IP: 1.1.24.219 MASK: 255.0.0.0 DHCP IP: 0.240.0.0 Running LoadFile() Starting: I64 Upgrade VIA NET %EIA-I-BOOTDRIVER, Starting auto-negotiation %EIA-I-BOOTDRIVER, Auto-negotiation selected 100BaseTX FDX Network Initial System Load Function Version 1.2 FUNCTION FUNCTION ID 1 - Display Menu 2 - Help 3 - Choose Service 4 - Select Options 5 - Stop Enter a function ID value:

Respond to the prompts by pressing Enter after each entry; use the default service name indicated or one suggested by the system manager:

1. Enter 3 for the function ID.

2. Enter 2 for the option ID.

3. Enter the service name (ALPHA084 is the default service name for the InfoServer hardware; I64084 is the default service name for the OpenVMS Integrity servers OE DVD; when using the InfoServer utility, check with your system or network manager for the service name to specify).

A sample display follows:

  Enter a function ID value: 3
  OPTION          OPTION
    ID
    1     -       Find Services
    2     -       Enter known Service Name
   
 Enter an Option ID value: 2
 Enter a Known Service Name: I64084