HP 9000 Series - Getting Help for the Boot Console User Interface Commands; Booting the Workstation

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Issue a b oot command.
See the section \Bo oting the W
orkstation" for details.
Turn o the workstation. There is no need to sh
ut down the workstation
with the sp ecial pro cedure described in Chapter 3, since the w
orkstation has
not yet b een b ooted, and the le system has not b een activ
ated.
Getting Help for the Boot Console User Interface Commands
You may issue many dierent commands in the b oot administration mo de. F
or
a complete listing, at the
BOOT_ADMIN> prompt type one of these commands:
h 4
Return
5
help 4
Return
5
? 4
Return
5
To get help for a particular command, type the following at the BOOT_ADMIN>
prompt:
help command name 4
Return
5
where command name is the name of one of the listed commands.
The displayed help information usually includes a description of the command,
its options, and the format for parameters.
Booting the Workstation
Usually,you start your workstation in Normal Mo de by turning it on and
waiting for HP-UX to b o ot automatically.However, you may not want the
usual sequence to o ccur.
For example, you maywant to start your workstation from an operating system
that is stored on a device that is dierent from your usual bo ot device. If
your normal op erating system kernel or the disk on which it resides b ecomes
damaged or unusable, you may wish to bo ot from a dierent disk or p erhaps
another type of device, such as a DDS-format tape drive.
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Using the Boot ROM C-5