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help with MicroVAX console (default boot device)?

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The Question is:

 
I have added an external SCSI drive to my MicroVAX3400.  I have completed an
image backup from $1$DIA0: (the old system drive) to DUA0: (the new system
drive).  I would now like to make DUA0: bootable.  How do I make it the
default boot device so when the system is restarted or I simply enter "B" at
the >>> prompt, it automatically starts off of DUA0:?
 
I am doing this so that I have enough drive space to get upto rev on
VMS/OpenVMS.
 
Thanks in advance for your help,
Doug M.
 
 

The Answer is :

 
  The Wizard would encourage users of systems such as the MicroVAX 3400,
  most MicroVAX 3500 series systems, and most later series VAX systems to
  enter a console command such as the following:
 
    >>> HELP
 
  for assistance with the available console commands.  The MicroVAX II
  and early MicroVAX 3500 were among the last VAX systems that lacked
  support for a HELP command at the console prompt.
 
  MicroVAX systems of this vintage usually used the console symbols
  BOOT and BFLAG to establish the boot device and default boot flags.
  These symbols were typically accessed with the SET and SHOW commands.
 

  

     

     
answer written or last revised on ( 20-JUL-1998 )
     
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