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Dealing with a Boot Failure
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Dealing with a Boot Failure
To start the 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 Chapters 9 and 10 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 as listed in the follow-
ing table:
For example, to boot an operating system stored on a
DDS-format tape in a drive located at Single-ended
SCSI ID 1 type the following command at the prompt:
Table 10 Bootable Device Types
C100/110
C160l/160/180/
200/240
Description
fwscsi fwscsi built-in FWD or UWSE SCSI bus
slotn.fwscsi gscn optional FWD SCSI bus
scsi sescsi built-in narrow SE SCSI bus
lan lan all connections to the built-in LAN