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

[Alan Feldman]

On Dec 17, 8:15 am, VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> In article <4eec4066$0$3281$c3e8da3$a8a65... at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam... 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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Cool! Thank you, gentlemen.

AEF