Booting Your System - HP Visualize c3700 Owner's Manual

The Boot Console Interface

Booting Your System

Booting Your System
You usually start your system by turning it on and waiting for HP-UX to
boot automatically. However, you may not always want the usual boot
sequence to occur.
For example, you may want to start your system 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 CD drive.
Here are some possible booting scenarios you may encounter:
• 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 Interface" earlier in this chapter, and
then type the following at the prompt:
Main Menu: Enter command > boot device
where device is the hardware path to the device, specified in
Mnemonic Style Notation. For example, if you wish to boot an
operating system that is stored on a DDS-format tape drive that is
located at the hardware path scsi.1.0, you would type the following
command at the prompt and press
Main Menu: Enter command > boot scsi.1.0
• If you do not know which device or the hardware path for the device
you want to boot from, then type the following at the prompt and
press :
Enter
Main Menu: Enter command > search
156
:
Enter
Chapter 5