Dealing With A Boot Failure - HP Visualize b132L Service Handbook

Troubleshooting

Dealing with a Boot Failure

Dealing with a Boot Failure
To start this workstation from an operating system
stored on a device different from the usual boot
device, to boot from a different disk, or to boot from
another type of device (such as a DDS tape drive), see
the following situations and examples that use the
Boot Console Interface. To access the Boot Console
Interface, see Chapter 9 of this book.
• To boot from a known device containing a bootable
operating system, type the following at the prompt:
boot <device>
where device is the hardware path to the device, speci-
fied in Mnemonic Style Notation.
For example, to boot an operating system stored on a
DDS-format tape in a drive located at "scsi.1.0," go to
the Main Menu of the Boot Console Interface and then
type the following command at the prompt:
boot scsi.1.0
The operating system on the specified device is used to
start the workstation.
• To interact with the Initial System Loader (ISL) before
booting the workstation, type the following at the
prompt:
boot <device>
You are prompted:
Interact with ISL (Y or N) >
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