Ignite-UX Installation Booting

Figure 1 illustrates the process of booting from the network by HP9000 systems:

Figure 1

Note:

The method that very old HP9000 systems used to boot over the

network, Remote Maintenance Protocol (RMP) via rbootd(1m), is not

discussed in this white paper.

Client

Server

boot lan install

–

bootp

query on

response on 1068 from

inetd

67 –

1067 –

boot lan – bootp query on port

response on 68 from

tftp

ISL

AUTO (hpux (;0)/boot/INSTALL)

tftp

HPUX

/opt/ignite/boot/INSTALL

tftp

kernel runs – callback to PDC to get install filesystem

tftp

INSTALLFS into RAM filesystem

Kernel completes initialization and then starts /sbin/init