AIX/HP-UX Interoperability Guide (continued)
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Alternate HP Boot Console User Interface

This describes the Boot Console User Interface for models 712, 715/64, 715/80, 715/100, and 725/100.

Accessing the Boot Console User Interface

1. Power-on the system.
2. Press and hold the Escape key at the boot banner.
3. Release the Escape key when the screen displays the boot administration command menu followed by the BOOT_ADMIN> prompt.

Searching for Bootable Media

To list devices that contain bootable media, type the following at the BOOT_ADMIN> prompt:

BOOT_ADMIN> search

This causes your workstation to search for bootable media. It searches all types of I/O devices in the following order:

1. Built-in SCSI
2. Built-in LAN

Booting from BOOT_ADMIN

The bootable devices are displayed by the search command in Mnemonic Style Notation. Use this notation when specifying a particular device from which to boot.

Examples:

BOOT_ADMIN> boot scsi.5.0

This will boot off the SCSI device at address 5.

BOOT_ADMIN> boot scsi.6.0 isl

This causes the ISL to be loaded from the SCSI device at address 6 (usually your internal hard drive).

Once you get to the ISL prompt you can boot to single-user mode with the following (assuming you want to boot from the device at address 6):

ISL>hpux -is boot disk(scsi.6;0)/hp-ux

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