Booting Your Workstation - HP 2240 Owner's Manual

Booting Your Workstation

Usually, you start your workstation by turning it on and waiting for
HP–UX to boot automatically. However, you may not always want
the usual sequence to occur.
For example, you may want to start your workstation from an operat-
ing 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 direc-
tions in "Accessing the Boot Console Interface" earlier in this
appendix, 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 Mne-
monic 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 "Accessing the Boot Console Interface" earlier in
this appendix, and then type the following command at the prompt:
Main Menu: Enter command > boot sescsi.1.0
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