Selecting An Alternate Operating System - HP 9000 700 Series Owner's Manual

Selecting an Alternate Operating System

If your hardware is functioning correctly, but your usual boot device (such
as the root disk) is not responding as it should, you can select an alternate
available boot device manually by following these steps:
1. Turn o the power to the VXIbus mainframe, and then turn it back on.
2. Press at the prompt for stopping the boot selection process:
4 ESC 5
System Search started
Press [Esc] to discontinue the Auto Boot process
3. You will see the following menu:
==== MAIN MENU ===============================
Key Operation
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1 Boot From a Device
2 Path Configuration
3 Mode Configuration
4 Interactive Testing
5 Firmware Information
6 Hardware Information
7 System Configuration
... .........................................
77 Reset the system
88 Change Mode
99 Restart Auto Boot
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Press Key(s), then press [Enter/Return]
Select the rst action, \
.
4 Enter 5
" by pressing
Boot From a Device
, followed by
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