HP-UX System Administrator's Guide: Routine Management Tasks

P2 0/0/2/0/0.0 Random access media
Main Menu: Enter command or menu > boot P2
Example 2-20 Boot from the default HP-UX install server
Main Menu: Enter command or menu > boot lan
Example 2-21 Boot from the HP-UX install server at 192.nn.xx.yyy
Main Menu: Enter command or menu > boot lan.192.nn.xx.yy
INSTALL
Booting from an Alternate Kernel
If you have built a new kernel, or have an alternate kernel file that you want to boot
from:
• Boot from the device containing the alternate kernel file using the BOOT command
from the BCH interface.
After you issue the BOOT command, the BCH interface prompts you to specify
whether you want to stop at the ISL prompt.
To boot the from the HP-UX kernel file represented in the AUTO file on the boot
device without stopping at the ISL prompt, enter n to automatically proceed past
ISL and execute the contents of the AUTO file on the selected device. By default the
AUTO file is configured to load /stand/vmunix though you can change that (See
“Changing the Contents of the Autoexecute File” (page 68)).
Main Menu: Enter command or menu > BOOT PRI
Primary Boot Path: 0/0/1/0/0.15
Do you wish to stop at the ISL prompt prior to booting? (y/n) >> n
ISL booting hpux
Boot
: disk(0/0/1/0/0.15.0.0.0.0.0;0)/stand/vmunix
To boot an HP-UX kernel other than that which is pointed to in the AUTO file, or
to boot HP-UX in single-user or LVM-maintenance mode, stop at the ISL prompt
and specify the appropriate arguments to the hpux loader.
Specify the HP-UX path name of the alternate kernel file that you want to boot as
part of the devicefile argument in the hpux boot command. For example:
ISL> hpux boot disk(1/0/12/1/1.5.0)/stand/alt_kernel_file_name
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