Digital Alpha Server

Your boot sequence is thus:
ROM firmware checks the state of the computers hardware first. Then the firmware loads the precedence of boot devices from nonvolatile memory (CMOS)...Then the first sector of each boot device is ched in turn to see if it contains a bootable partition with a file system that the FIRMWARE RECOGNIZES... REMEMBER THAT! recognizes. Your boot disk has to have the following files on it. OSLOADER.EXE, NTOSKRNL.EXE and NTBOOTDD.SYS. There is a ALPHA directory on your NT CD that can help you get that going.
NO BOOT DISK REQUIRED.....
You can install Windows NT directly from the ARC console. Watch the screen during the boot process; when the screen displays ARC MUltiboot Alpha AXP... On the menu, select the Supplementary menu option. This will give you another menu -- one of the items is Install Windows NT from CD-ROM.
If your system comes up in the SRM console (that is with a >>> boot prompt) just type ARC (on UDB, AXPpci, and Multia systems) or SET OS_TYPE NT (on all others) and hit the return key. When the boot prompt reappears, power cycle your system or type ARC. The ARC console will come up as the default from now on.
If you need to format the drive first, you can run ARCINST.EXE (which is on the CD). Instructions are included in the release notes. Hope this helps you... Latez-