| Boot Single User | ok boot -s |
| Boot Interactive | ok boot -a |
| Boot Verbose | ok boot -v |
| Boot Reconfiguraton - searches for new devices and creates entries | ok boot -r |
| Show System Info | ok banner |
| Show Boot Parameters | ok printenv |
| Shows Alias for Current Boot Device | ok printenv boot-device |
| Show value for auto-boot | ok printenv auto-boot? |
| Change value for auto-boot | ok setenv auto-boot? false |
| Search for IDE Devices | ok probe-ide |
| Search for Devices attached to local SCSI controller | ok probe-scsi |
| Search for Devices attached to all SCSI controllers | ok probe-scsi-all |
| Show devices connected to the system bus and their path | ok show-devs |
| Show all device aliases and their path | ok devalias |
| Create device alias | ok nvalias {alias name} {path to device} |
| Create device alias (older Open Boot versions) | ok nvedit {alias name} {path to device} |
| Change Open Boot parameters from shell versus from ok prompt | eeprom |