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Reference section: First boot of OpenVMS

Updated 2021-03-20, by Ton van der Zwet

Description of the first boot of Alpha OpenVMS.


First you have to make certain that your Alpha-computer has the latest (supported) firmware loaded.
See the description of a firmware update on an Alpha computer.

After that you installed OpenVMS. See the description of the OpenVMS installation.

As no more information is needed by the procedure, all you have to do is sit and wait for the final boot to complete.
This step will normally take less then 5 minutes to complete.
Example of the first boot after a succesfull installation on an AlphaServer DS10L.
*** keyboard not plugged in...
512 Meg of system memory
probing hose 0, PCI
probing PCI-to-ISA bridge, bus 1
bus 0, slot 9 -- ewa -- DE500-BA Network Controller
bus 0, slot 11 -- ewb -- DE500-BA Network Controller
bus 0, slot 13 -- dqa -- Acer Labs M1543C IDE
bus 0, slot 13 -- dqb -- Acer Labs M1543C IDE
bus 0, slot 17 -- pka -- NCR 53C895
initializing GCT/FRU at 1f0000
Testing the System
Testing the Disks (read only)
Testing ew* devices.
System Temperature is 27 degrees C

AlphaServer DS10L 617 MHz Console V6.5-15, Jun 16 2003 16:12:26
>>>show device d
dka0.0.0.17.0              DKA0              COMPAQ BD01874554  3B08
dka100.1.0.17.0            DKA100            COMPAQ BB00911CA0  3B07
dka200.2.0.17.0            DKA200            COMPAQ BD018122C0  3B07
dka300.3.0.17.0            DKA300                     RZ2ED-LS  0306
dka400.4.0.17.0            DKA400            COMPAQ BD018122C0  3B09
dka500.5.0.17.0            DKA500                     RZ1DF-CB  0372
dka600.6.0.17.0            DKA600                     RZ1DF-CB  0372
dqb0.0.1.13.0              DQB0                        CD-224E  9.5B    
dva0.0.0.0.0               DVA0                               
>>>b dka600
(boot dka600.6.0.17.0 -flags 0,0)
block 0 of dka600.6.0.17.0 is a valid boot block
reading 1134 blocks from dka600.6.0.17.0
bootstrap code read in
base = 200000, image_start = 0, image_bytes = 8dc00(580608)
initializing HWRPB at 2000
initializing page table at 1ff30000
initializing machine state
setting affinity to the primary CPU
jumping to bootstrap code


    OpenVMS (TM) Alpha Operating System, Version V7.3-2  
    Copyright 1976-2003 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.


%PKA0, Copyright (c) 1998 IntraServer Technology Inc. PKW V2.1.21 ROM V2.0
%PKA0, SCSI Chip is SYM53C895, Operating mode is SE Ultra SCSI

    Installing required known files...

    Configuring devices...
%RUN-S-PROC_ID, identification of created process is 00000024
%SYSTEM-I-BOOTUPGRADE, security auditing disabled
%%%%%%%%%%%  OPCOM  22-APR-2004 14:45:00.31  %%%%%%%%%%%
Operator _STAR$OPA0: has been enabled, username SYSTEM

%%%%%%%%%%%  OPCOM  22-APR-2004 14:45:00.34  %%%%%%%%%%%
Operator status for operator _STAR$OPA0:
CENTRAL, PRINTER, TAPES, DISKS, DEVICES, CARDS, NETWORK, CLUSTER, SECURITY,
LICENSE, OPER1, OPER2, OPER3, OPER4, OPER5, OPER6, OPER7, OPER8, OPER9, OPER10,
OPER11, OPER12

%%%%%%%%%%%  OPCOM  22-APR-2004 14:45:00.56  %%%%%%%%%%%
Logfile has been initialized by operator _STAR$OPA0:
Logfile is STAR::SYS$SYSROOT:[SYSMGR]OPERATOR.LOG;1

%%%%%%%%%%%  OPCOM  22-APR-2004 14:45:00.56  %%%%%%%%%%%
Operator status for operator STAR::SYS$SYSROOT:[SYSMGR]OPERATOR.LOG;1
CENTRAL, PRINTER, TAPES, DISKS, DEVICES, CARDS, NETWORK, CLUSTER, SECURITY,
LICENSE, OPER1, OPER2, OPER3, OPER4, OPER5, OPER6, OPER7, OPER8, OPER9, OPER10,
OPER11, OPER12

%%%%%%%%%%%  OPCOM  22-APR-2004 14:45:00.56  %%%%%%%%%%%
Message from user WBM$SERVER
%WBM-I-WBMINFO Write Bitmap has successfully completed initialization.

%%%%%%%%%%%  OPCOM  22-APR-2004 14:45:01.37  %%%%%%%%%%%
Message from user SYSTEM on STAR
%JBC-E-OPENERR, error opening SYS$COMMON:[SYSEXE]QMAN$MASTER.DAT;

%%%%%%%%%%%  OPCOM  22-APR-2004 14:45:01.37  %%%%%%%%%%%
Message from user SYSTEM on STAR
-RMS-E-FNF, file not found

%LICENSE-F-EMTLDB, license database contains no license records
%SYSTEM-I-BOOTUPGRADE, security server not started
%SYSTEM-I-BOOTUPGRADE, ACME server not started
%%%%%%%%%%%  OPCOM  22-APR-2004 14:45:02.71  %%%%%%%%%%%
Message from user SYSTEM on STAR
TDF-I-SETTDF TDF set new timezone differential

%%%%%%%%%%%  OPCOM  22-APR-2004 14:45:04.27  %%%%%%%%%%%
Message from user SYSTEM on STAR
%LICENSE-E-NOAUTH, DEC OPENVMS-ALPHA use is not authorized on this node
-LICENSE-F-NOLICENSE, no license is active for this software product
-LICENSE-I-SYSMGR, please see your system manager


%LICENSE-E-NOAUTH, DEC OPENVMS-ALPHA use is not authorized on this node
-LICENSE-F-NOLICENSE, no license is active for this software product
-LICENSE-I-SYSMGR, please see your system manager
Startup processing continuing...

%SYSTEM-I-BOOTUPGRADE, Coordinated Startup not performed
%EWA0, Fast mode set by console
%EWB0, Twisted-Pair mode set by console



    AUTOGEN will now be run to compute the new system parameters.  The system
    will then shut down and reboot, and the installation or upgrade will be
    complete.

    After rebooting you can continue with such system management tasks as:

            Decompressing System Libraries
            Configuring networking software (TCP/IP Services, DECnet, other)
            Using SYS$MANAGER:CLUSTER_CONFIG.COM to create an OpenVMS Cluster
            Creating FIELD, SYSTEST and SYSTEST_CLIG accounts if needed

%AUTOGEN-I-BEGIN, GETDATA phase is beginning.
%AUTOGEN-I-NEWFILE,  Previous contents of SYS$SYSTEM:CLU$PARAMS.DAT have
  been copied to SYS$SYSTEM:CLU$PARAMS.OLD.  You may wish to purge
  SYS$SYSTEM:CLU$PARAMS.OLD.
%AUTOGEN-I-NEWFILE,  Previous contents of SYS$SYSTEM:CLU$PARAMS.DAT have
  been copied to SYS$SYSTEM:CLU$PARAMS.OLD.  You may wish to purge
  SYS$SYSTEM:CLU$PARAMS.OLD.
%AUTOGEN-I-NEWFILE, A new version of SYS$SYSTEM:PARAMS.DAT has been created.
        You may wish to purge this file.
%AUTOGEN-I-END, GETDATA phase has successfully completed.
%AUTOGEN-I-BEGIN, GENPARAMS phase is beginning.
%AUTOGEN-I-NEWFILE, A new version of SYS$MANAGER:VMSIMAGES.DAT has been created.
        You may wish to purge this file.
%AUTOGEN-I-NEWFILE, A new version of SYS$SYSTEM:SETPARAMS.DAT has been created.
        You may wish to purge this file.
%AUTOGEN-I-END, GENPARAMS phase has successfully completed.
%AUTOGEN-I-BEGIN, GENFILES phase is beginning.
%SYSGEN-I-EXTENDED, SYS$SYSROOT:[SYSEXE]SYS$ERRLOG.DMP;1 extended
%SYSGEN-I-EXTENDED, SYS$SYSROOT:[SYSEXE]PAGEFILE.SYS;1 extended
%SYSGEN-I-EXTENDED, SYS$SYSROOT:[SYSEXE]PAGEFILE.SYS;1 extended
%SYSGEN-I-CREATED, SYS$SYSROOT:[SYSEXE]SYSDUMP.DMP;1 created
%SYSGEN-I-EXTENDED, SYS$SYSROOT:[SYSEXE]SWAPFILE.SYS;1 extended

%AUTOGEN-I-REPORT, AUTOGEN has produced some informational messages which
        have been stored in the file SYS$SYSTEM:AGEN$PARAMS.REPORT.  You may
        wish to review the information in that file.

%AUTOGEN-I-END, GENFILES phase has successfully completed.
%AUTOGEN-I-BEGIN, SETPARAMS phase is beginning.
%%%%%%%%%%%  OPCOM  22-APR-2004 14:45:30.53  %%%%%%%%%%%
Message from user SYSTEM on STAR
%SYSGEN-I-WRITECUR, CURRENT system parameters modified by process ID 00000023 in
to file SYS$SYSROOT:[SYSEXE]ALPHAVMSSYS.PAR;2

%AUTOGEN-I-SYSGEN, parameters modified
%AUTOGEN-I-END, SETPARAMS phase has successfully completed.
%AUTOGEN-I-BEGIN, REBOOT phase is beginning.

The system is shutting down to allow the system to boot with the
generated site-specific parameters and installed images.

The system will automatically reboot after the shutdown and the
upgrade will be complete.



        SHUTDOWN -- Perform an Orderly System Shutdown
                    on node STAR


%SHUTDOWN-I-BOOTCHECK, performing reboot consistency check...
%SHUTDOWN-I-CHECKOK, basic reboot consistency check completed

%SHUTDOWN-I-OPERATOR, this terminal is now an operator's console
%SHUTDOWN-I-DISLOGINS, interactive logins will now be disabled
%SET-I-INTSET, login interactive limit = 0, current interactive value = 0
%SHUTDOWN-I-STOPQUEUES, the queues on this node will now be stopped
%%%%%%%%%%%  OPCOM  22-APR-2004 14:45:33.26  %%%%%%%%%%%
Message from user SYSTEM on STAR
%JBC-E-OPENERR, error opening SYS$COMMON:[SYSEXE]QMAN$MASTER.DAT;

%%%%%%%%%%%  OPCOM  22-APR-2004 14:45:33.26  %%%%%%%%%%%
Message from user SYSTEM on STAR
-RMS-E-FNF, file not found


SHUTDOWN message on STAR from user SYSTEM at STAR Batch   14:45:33
STAR will shut down in 0 minutes; back up soon.  Please log off node STAR.
Reboot system with AUTOGENerated parameters


%SHUTDOWN-I-SITESHUT, the site-specific shutdown procedure will now be invoked
%SHUTDOWN-I-STOPUSER, all user processes will now be stopped
%SHUTDOWN-I-REMOVE, all installed images will now be removed
%SHUTDOWN-I-DISMOUNT, all volumes will now be dismounted
%%%%%%%%%%%  OPCOM  22-APR-2004 14:45:35.42  %%%%%%%%%%%
Message from user SYSTEM on STAR
STARTUP, STAR shutdown was requested by the operator.

**** SYS$ERRLOG.DMP is too small to save all error log buffers

halted CPU 0

halt code = 5
HALT instruction executed
PC = ffffffff800abfdc

CPU 0 booting

Resetting I/O buses...
(boot dka600.6.0.17.0 -flags 0,0)
block 0 of dka600.6.0.17.0 is a valid boot block
reading 1134 blocks from dka600.6.0.17.0
bootstrap code read in
base = 200000, image_start = 0, image_bytes = 8dc00(580608)
initializing HWRPB at 2000
initializing page table at 1ff30000
initializing machine state
setting affinity to the primary CPU
jumping to bootstrap code


    OpenVMS (TM) Alpha Operating System, Version V7.3-2  
    Copyright 1976-2003 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.


%PKA0, Copyright (c) 1998 IntraServer Technology Inc. PKW V2.1.21 ROM V2.0
%PKA0, SCSI Chip is SYM53C895, Operating mode is SE Ultra SCSI
%SYSINIT-W- dump file write errors - error log buffers not saved
%STDRV-I-STARTUP, OpenVMS startup begun at 22-APR-2004 14:46:29.72
%EWA0, Fast mode set by console
%EWB0, Twisted-Pair mode set by console
%RUN-S-PROC_ID, identification of created process is 00000204
%RUN-S-PROC_ID, identification of created process is 00000205
%SET-I-NEWAUDSRV, identification of new audit server process is 0000020A
%%%%%%%%%%%  OPCOM  22-APR-2004 14:46:45.52  %%%%%%%%%%%
Operator _STAR$OPA0: has been enabled, username SYSTEM

%%%%%%%%%%%  OPCOM  22-APR-2004 14:46:45.64  %%%%%%%%%%%
Operator status for operator _STAR$OPA0:
CENTRAL, PRINTER, TAPES, DISKS, DEVICES, CARDS, NETWORK, CLUSTER, SECURITY,
LICENSE, OPER1, OPER2, OPER3, OPER4, OPER5, OPER6, OPER7, OPER8, OPER9, OPER10,
OPER11, OPER12

%LICENSE-F-EMTLDB, license database contains no license records
%%%%%%%%%%%  OPCOM  22-APR-2004 14:46:45.91  %%%%%%%%%%%
Logfile has been initialized by operator _STAR$OPA0:
Logfile is STAR::SYS$SYSROOT:[SYSMGR]OPERATOR.LOG;2

%%%%%%%%%%%  OPCOM  22-APR-2004 14:46:45.91  %%%%%%%%%%%
Operator status for operator STAR::SYS$SYSROOT:[SYSMGR]OPERATOR.LOG;2
CENTRAL, PRINTER, TAPES, DISKS, DEVICES, CARDS, NETWORK, CLUSTER, SECURITY,
LICENSE, OPER1, OPER2, OPER3, OPER4, OPER5, OPER6, OPER7, OPER8, OPER9, OPER10,
OPER11, OPER12

%%%%%%%%%%%  OPCOM  22-APR-2004 14:46:45.91  %%%%%%%%%%%
Message from user WBM$SERVER
%WBM-I-WBMINFO Write Bitmap has successfully completed initialization.

%%%%%%%%%%%  OPCOM  22-APR-2004 14:46:46.31  %%%%%%%%%%%
Message from user AUDIT$SERVER on STAR
%AUDSRV-I-NEWSERVERDB, new audit server database created

%%%%%%%%%%%  OPCOM  22-APR-2004 14:46:46.32  %%%%%%%%%%%
Message from user SYSTEM on STAR
%JBC-E-OPENERR, error opening SYS$COMMON:[SYSEXE]QMAN$MASTER.DAT;

%%%%%%%%%%%  OPCOM  22-APR-2004 14:46:46.32  %%%%%%%%%%%
Message from user SYSTEM on STAR
-RMS-E-FNF, file not found

%%%%%%%%%%%  OPCOM  22-APR-2004 14:46:47.61  %%%%%%%%%%%
Message from user AUDIT$SERVER on STAR
%AUDSRV-I-REMENABLED, resource monitoring enabled for journal SECURITY

%%%%%%%%%%%  OPCOM  22-APR-2004 14:46:47.90  %%%%%%%%%%%
Message from user AUDIT$SERVER on STAR
%AUDSRV-I-NEWOBJECTDB, new object database created

%%%%%%%%%%%  OPCOM  22-APR-2004 14:50:34.63  %%%%%%%%%%%
Message from user SYSTEM on STAR
%ACME-I-SERVERSTART, ACME_SERVER starting

%%%%%%%%%%%  OPCOM  22-APR-2004 14:50:34.88  %%%%%%%%%%%
Message from user SYSTEM on STAR
%SECSRV-E-NOPROXYDB, cannot find proxy database file NET$PROXY.DAT
%RMS-E-FNF, file not found

%%%%%%%%%%%  OPCOM  22-APR-2004 14:50:34.89  %%%%%%%%%%%
Message from user SYSTEM on STAR
%SECSRV-E-NOPROXYDB, cannot find proxy database file NET$PROXY.DAT
%RMS-E-FNF, file not found

%%%%%%%%%%%  OPCOM  22-APR-2004 14:50:34.91  %%%%%%%%%%%
Message from user SYSTEM on STAR
%SECSRV-I-CIACRECLUDB, security server created cluster intrusion database

%%%%%%%%%%%  OPCOM  22-APR-2004 14:50:34.91  %%%%%%%%%%%
Message from user SYSTEM on STAR
%SECSRV-I-SERVERSTARTINGU, security server starting up

%%%%%%%%%%%  OPCOM  22-APR-2004 14:50:34.99  %%%%%%%%%%%
Message from user SYSTEM on STAR
%SECSRV-I-CIASTARTINGUP, breakin detection and evasion processing now starting u
p

%%%%%%%%%%%  OPCOM  22-APR-2004 14:50:40.63  %%%%%%%%%%%
Message from user SYSTEM on STAR
TDF-I-SETTDF TDF set new timezone differential

%%%%%%%%%%%  OPCOM  22-APR-2004 14:50:41.68  %%%%%%%%%%%
Message from user SYSTEM on STAR
Warning: DECdtm log file not found (SYS$JOURNAL:SYSTEM$STAR.LM$JOURNAL)
        %RMS-E-FNF, file not found
        TP server process waiting


%LICENSE-E-NOAUTH, DEC OPENVMS-ALPHA use is not authorized on this node
%%%%%%%%%%%  OPCOM  22-APR-2004 14:50:41.68  %%%%%%%%%%%
Message from user SYSTEM on STAR
%LICENSE-E-NOAUTH, DEC OPENVMS-ALPHA use is not authorized on this node
-LICENSE-F-NOLICENSE, no license is active for this software product
-LICENSE-I-SYSMGR, please see your system manager


-LICENSE-F-NOLICENSE, no license is active for this software product
-LICENSE-I-SYSMGR, please see your system manager
Startup processing continuing...

%STARTUP-I-AUDITCONTINUE, audit server initialization complete
%%%%%%%%%%%  OPCOM  22-APR-2004 14:50:42.99  %%%%%%%%%%%
Message from user AUDIT$SERVER on STAR
Security alarm (SECURITY) and security audit (SECURITY) on STAR, system id: 6550
0
Auditable event:          Audit server starting up
Event time:               22-APR-2004 14:50:42.88
PID:                      00000203        
Username:                 SYSTEM          


The OpenVMS system is now executing the site-specific startup commands.

%%%%%%%%%%%  OPCOM  22-APR-2004 14:51:20.70  %%%%%%%%%%%
Message from user AUDIT$SERVER on STAR
Security alarm (SECURITY) and security audit (SECURITY) on STAR, system id: 6550
0
Auditable event:          Identifier added
Event time:               22-APR-2004 14:51:20.70
PID:                      00000203        
Process name:             STARTUP         
Username:                 SYSTEM          
Process owner:            [SYSTEM]
Image name:               STAR$DKA600:[SYS0.SYSCOMMON.][SYSEXE]AUTHORIZE.EXE
Identifier name:          SYS$NODE_STAR                   
Identifier value:         %X80010000      
Attributes:               none
Posix UID:                -2              
Posix GID:                -2 (%XFFFFFFFE) 

%UAF-I-RDBADDMSG, identifier SYS$NODE_STAR value %X80010000 added to rights data
base
%%%%%%%%%%%  OPCOM  22-APR-2004 14:51:21.96  %%%%%%%%%%%
Message from user AUDIT$SERVER on STAR
Security alarm (SECURITY) and security audit (SECURITY) on STAR, system id: 6550
0
Auditable event:          Identifier added
Event time:               22-APR-2004 14:51:21.96
PID:                      00000203        
Process name:             STARTUP         
Username:                 SYSTEM          
Process owner:            [SYSTEM]
Image name:               STAR$DKA600:[SYS0.SYSCOMMON.][SYSEXE]AUTHORIZE.EXE
Identifier name:          DECW$WS_QUOTA                   
Identifier value:         %X80010001      
Attributes:               none
Posix UID:                -2              
Posix GID:                -2 (%XFFFFFFFE) 

%UAF-I-RDBADDMSG, identifier DECW$WS_QUOTA value %X80010001 added to rights data
base
%%%%%%%%%%%  OPCOM  22-APR-2004 14:51:23.14  %%%%%%%%%%%
Message from user AUDIT$SERVER on STAR
Security alarm (SECURITY) and security audit (SECURITY) on STAR, system id: 6550
0
Auditable event:          Identifier added
Event time:               22-APR-2004 14:51:23.14
PID:                      00000203        
Process name:             STARTUP         
Username:                 SYSTEM          
Process owner:            [SYSTEM]
Image name:               STAR$DKA600:[SYS0.SYSCOMMON.][SYSEXE]IMGDMP_RIGHTS.EXE
;1
Identifier name:          IMGDMP$READALL                  
Identifier value:         %X90390001      
Attributes:               none
Posix UID:                -2              
Posix GID:                -2 (%XFFFFFFFE) 

%PROCDUMP-I-CREATED, rights identifier IMGDMP$READALL successfully created
%%%%%%%%%%%  OPCOM  22-APR-2004 14:51:24.12  %%%%%%%%%%%
Message from user AUDIT$SERVER on STAR
Security alarm (SECURITY) and security audit (SECURITY) on STAR, system id: 6550
0
Auditable event:          Identifier added
Event time:               22-APR-2004 14:51:24.12
PID:                      00000203        
Process name:             STARTUP         
Username:                 SYSTEM          
Process owner:            [SYSTEM]
Image name:               STAR$DKA600:[SYS0.SYSCOMMON.][SYSEXE]IMGDMP_RIGHTS.EXE
;1
Identifier name:          IMGDMP$PROTECT                  
Identifier value:         %X90390002      
Attributes:               RESOURCE
Posix UID:                -2              
Posix GID:                -2 (%XFFFFFFFE) 

%PROCDUMP-I-CREATED, rights identifier IMGDMP$PROTECT successfully created
%SET-I-INTSET, login interactive limit = 64, current interactive value = 0
%RUN-S-PROC_ID, identification of created process is 00000210
%%%%%%%%%%%  OPCOM  22-APR-2004 14:51:25.98  %%%%%%%%%%%
Message from user SYSTEM on STAR
%SMHANDLER-S-STARTUP, server management event handler startup

  SYSTEM       job terminated at 22-APR-2004 14:51:28.08

  Accounting information:
  Buffered I/O count:               3070      Peak working set size:       7248
  Direct I/O count:                 1638      Peak virtual size:         184736
  Page faults:                      3085      Mounted volumes:                0
  Charged CPU time:        0 00:00:01.39      Elapsed time:       0 00:04:58.79
<return>
 Welcome to OpenVMS (TM) Alpha Operating System, Version V7.3-2  

Username: system
Password: <password not echoed>
%LICENSE-I-NOLICENSE, no license is active for this software product
%LOGIN-S-LOGOPRCON, login allowed from OPA0:
   Welcome to OpenVMS (TM) Alpha Operating System, Version V7.3-2

$

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