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The OpenVMS operating system includes procedures that
allow you to easily upgrade the operating system using the PCSI utility. These tools are available once you boot the system properly. You can use a VGA graphics device, serial device, or
network interface for the console. For information about
configuring your system console, see Section . | | | |  | NOTE: When
using a VGA console and upgrading from vMedia or a USB DVD drive with
the keyboard plugged into a USB hub, if the keyboard is not responding,
simply unplug the hub and plug it back in. | | | | |
Booting the OpenVMS I64 OE DVD | |
You can boot the OpenVMS
I64 OE DVD in any of the following ways. This section gives detailed
instructions on booting from the local DVD drive. Detailed instructions
on the other methods are available in the appendixes, as noted in
the corresponding sections that follow. From your local DVD drive
(Section ) From a virtual DVD drive
served over the network by the InfoServer utility (Section ) From an image on a PC
or Windows server in the network accessed through the HP SIM interface
(Section ) From an image on a PC
or Windows server in the network using vMedia through a browser connected
to your Integrity server iLO 2 MP port (Section )
The latter two options can be used for entry-class
Integrity servers that support such means; they can be used when a
local DVD drive is not available. For more information about booting
operations, see Section . Booting from the Local DriveTo boot a local OpenVMS I64 OE DVD, follow these
steps. To boot the DVD on a cell-based server, a DVD device must
be accessible by 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 you want to use. 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 "V8.3-1H1"; 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\ms_show dev -fs |
On most Integrity servers, the DVD drive is DQA0: (IDE) or DNA0: (USB). On systems that include a SCSI
bus, such as the Superdome server, the DVD drive is DKA0:. For more
information about the vms_show command, see the HP OpenVMS System Management Utilities Reference Manual.
| | | | | NOTE: By default, certain versions of EFI might interpret the Delete (or Backspace) key differently than
do OpenVMS Alpha systems or Microsoft Windows computers. In such cases,
press Ctrl/H to delete the last
character entered. For more information, see Section . | | | | |
When the DVD boots properly, the OpenVMS operating
system banner appears, followed by the operating system menu. You
can now upgrade your OpenVMS I64 operating system on the target disk
(see Section ).
If the methods documented in this section do not succeed in booting
the DVD, see Section . | | | | | NOTE: 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. | | | | |
Booting Over the Network Using the InfoServer UtilityTo use the InfoServer utility to boot from the network,
certain configuration steps are required initially (one time only);
see Appendix B. The instructions
on booting over the network from a virtual DVD drive are also included
in Appendix B. Booting Using HP SIM ProvisioningTo use HP SIM provisioning to boot an image
of the OpenVMS OE DVD, certain configuration steps are required initially
(one time only). For these steps and the booting instructions, see Appendix C. For upgrades, your
OpenVMS boot flags must be set to (0,0). To use vMedia to boot an image of the OpenVMS OE DVD, certain configuration
steps are required initially (one time only); see Section . For instructions
on booting with vMedia, see Section . |
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