Managing Systems and Workgroups: A Guide for HP-UX System Administrators

Administering a System: Booting and Shutdown
Booting Systems
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The Boot Console Handler (BCH) will display its main menu and prompt
for a command:
Main Menu: Enter command >
Step 2. Use the BCH boot command to specify where you want to boot the
system from.
You can issue the BOOT command in any of the following ways:
• BOOT
Issuing the BOOT command with no arguments boots the device at the
primary (PRI) boot path.
• BOOT bootvariable
This command boots the device indicated by the specified boot path,
where bootvariable is the PRI, HAA, or ALT boot path.
For example, BOOT HAA boots the high-availability alternate boot
path.
• BOOT LAN INSTALL or BOOT LAN. ip-address INSTALL
The BOOT... INSTALL commands boot HP-UX from the default
HP-UX install server or from the server specified by ip-address .
• BOOT path
This command boots the device at the specified path . You can specify
the path in HP-UX hardware path notation (for example,
0/0/2/0/0.13) or in “path label” format (for example, P0 or P1).
NOTE If you specify the path in “path label” format then path refers to a
device path reported by the last BCH SEARCH command.
Example 5-20 Boot from the boot device specified in the ALT boot path
Main Menu: Enter command or menu > boot alt