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The Boot Console Interface
Booting Your Computer
A message similar to the following will be displayed:
Path Number Device Path Device Type
----------- ---------------- -----------
P0 IDE TEAC CD-532E-B
P1 FWSCSI.6.0 SEAGATE ST39102LC
At the prompt, you might type the following and press Enter:
Main Menu: Enter command > boot P1
Note that the operating system on the specified device (P1) is used to
boot your computer (also see the section “Searching for Bootable
Media”).
• If you wish to interact with the Initial System Loader (ISL) before
booting you computer, 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
The following prompt will appear:
Interact with ISL (Y,N,Q)>
Answering yes (Y) causes the ISL to be loaded from the specified
device. After a short time, the following prompt appears on your
screen:
ISL>
ISL is the program that actually controls the loading of the operating
system. By interacting with ISL, you can choose to load an alternate
version of the HP-UX operating system. If you do not want to interact
with ISL, you must enter no (N).