[Info-vax] Stupid VMS question: minimal boot directly to full - can it be done

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In article <4eec4066$0$3281$c3e8da3$a8a65a91 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
>AEF wrote:
>> Well, I never got around to asking this. Is there some way to boot
>> full from a minimal boot without rebooting?
>
>You'd have to get to the $, use SYSGEN to remove SYARTUP_P1 (set to
>null) and then invoke @SS%SYSTEM:STARTUP
>
>I think you may have to supply it with "FULL" as parameter, but am not sure.
>
>Minimum stsartup is caught by STARTUP.COM. So everything before it
>proceeds normally.

>From SYS$SYSTEM:STARTUP.COM:

$p1 = f$edit(f$getsyi("STARTUP_P1"),"TRIM,UPCASE")
$if p1 .eqs. "" then p1 = "FULL"

Therefore, setting STARTUP_P1 to "" will effect a full OpenVMS startup.

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