Searching For Bootable Media; Stable Storage; Boot Command Notations - HP Visualize J5000 - Workstation Service Handbook

To find the location of the bootable operating systems on the various media in
the file system, use the search command.

Searching for Bootable Media

To list all devices that may contain bootable media, go to the Main Menu of the Boot
Console Interface and then type the following at the prompt:
Main Menu: Enter a command or a menu >
The search may turn up more devices than there are lines on the display. If using a
text terminal, control the progress of the search from the terminal's keyboard by per-
forming the following steps:
To hold the display temporarily, press
To continue the display, press
To halt the search, press
These flow-control commands do not work with a bitmapped display, but such a
display can show more than forty lines of text, so they are unnecessary.
To search for devices of just one type that actually contain bootable media, go to the
the Main Menu of the Boot Console Interface and then type the following at the
prompt:
Main Menu: Enter a command or a menu >
where device_type is one of the following:
fwscsi is the built-in fast, wide SCSI bus
scsi is the built-in single-ended SCSI bus
lan is all connections to the built-in LAN

Stable Storage

Stable Storage is non-volatile memory associated with each PA-RISC processor mod-
ule. Stable storage is used by the processor (CPU) to store device path information,
the state of the boot flags, HPMC error information, and operating system initializa-
tion data.

Boot Command Notations

The boot command supports the following two notations:
Mnemonic
Path number
Type help scsi or help lan for more information on the boot path parameters.
search ipl
S
Ctrl
Q
Ctrl
Esc
search ipl
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