Operating instructions

5.1 SRM Console Overview
The SRM console is the command-line interface that supports the
Tru64 UNIX and OpenVMS operating systems and Linux. The SRM con-
sole is used to bootstrap the operating system, configure and test the
system hardware, examine system options for errors, and set or change
environment variables.
The SRM console works much like a UNIX shell. It views your NVRAM and de-
vices as a pseudo file system. The SRM console contains a fairly large set of di-
agnostic, setup, and debugging utilities, the details of which are beyond the
scope of this document. As in the UNIX shell, you can pipe the output of one
command to the input of another. You can also use a more command that
works like the UNIX more command. For a full listing of available commands,
enter:
P00>>> help | more
Console Prompt
The SRM console prompt is some variant of >>> (three right angle-brackets).
Typically, the prompt is Pnn>>>, where n indicates the primary processor. In a
two-processor system, the prompt is either P00>>> or P01>>>.
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