Booting Your Workstation - HP Visualize b132L Service Handbook

Booting Your Workstation

Usually, you start your workstation by turning it on
and waiting for HP-UX to boot automatically. How-
ever, you may not always want the usual sequence to
occur.
For example, you may want to start your workstation
from an operating system that is stored on a device
that is different from your usual boot device. If your
normal operating system kernel or the disk on which it
resides becomes damaged or unusable, you may wish
to boot from a different disk or perhaps another type of
device, such as a DDS-format tape drive.
Here are some situations and examples:
• If you know which device you want to boot from, and
you know that it contains a bootable operating system,
follow the directions in "Accessing the Boot Console In-
terface" earlier in this appendix, and then type the fol-
lowing at the prompt:
Main Menu: Enter command >
where device is the hardware path to the device, speci-
fied in Mnemonic Style Notation.
For example, if you wish to boot an operating system
that is stored on a DDS-format tape in a drive that is
located at "sescsi.1.0", follow the directions in "Access-
ing the Boot Console Interface" earlier in this appendix,
and then type the following command at the prompt:
Main Menu: Enter command >
The operating system on the specified device is used to
start your workstation.
• If you wish to interact with the Initial System Loader
Boot Console Interface
Booting Your Workstation
boot device
boot sescsi.1.0
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