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Step 6: Boot the OpenVMS Galaxy  



Changing the partition setup may affect console environment variable values; check to ensure they are correct. To ensure that AUTOGEN reboots correctly when it needs to reboot the system after an initial installation and after a system failure or operator-requested reboot, set the BOOTDEF_DEV and BOOT_OSFLAGS variables on each of your Galaxy consoles before booting.

When the OpenVMS system is booted with Galaxy enabled, each soft partition can run a separate instance of the operating system as a Galaxy member.

At a point in the boot process, the instance will attempt to join the Galaxy configuration. If no Galaxy exists, the attempt triggers the creation of a Galaxy, generating a new Galaxy ID and initializing the structures in shared memory that all members in the resulting Galaxy will use. If a Galaxy does exist, the instance joins, connecting to the shared memory constructs and, through them, to the other member instances.

For a Galaxy instance on the ES47/ES80/GS1280:

When you have correctly installed the Galaxy firmware and configured the consoles, you can boot the initial Galaxy environment as follows:

For each Galaxy instance:

P00>>> B -FL 0,1 DKA100 // or whatever your boot device is.
 
SYSBOOT> SET GALAXY 1
 
SYSBOOT> CONTINUE
Congratulations! You have created an OpenVMS Galaxy.
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