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D To find the location of the bootable operating systems on the various media in the file system, use the search command. Searching for Bootable Media To list all devices that may contain bootable media, go to the Main Menu of the Boot Console Interface and then type the following at the prompt: Main Menu: Enter a command or a menu > search ipl The search may turn up more devices than there are lines on the display. If using a text terminal, control the progress of the search from the terminal's keyboard by performing the following steps: D To hold the display temporarily, press Ctrl S D To continue the display, press Ctrl Q D To halt the search, press Esc These flow-control commands do not work with a bitmapped display, but such a display can show more than forty lines of text, so they are unnecessary. To search for devices of just one type that actually contain bootable media, go to the the Main Menu of the Boot Console Interface and then type the following at the prompt: Main Menu: Enter a command or a menu > search ipl device_type where device_type is one of the following: fwscsi is the built-in fast, wide SCSI bus scsi is the built-in single-ended SCSI bus lan is all connections to the built-in LAN Stable Storage Stable Storage is non-volatile memory associated with each PA-RISC processor module. Stable storage is used by the processor (CPU) to store device path information, the state of the boot flags, HPMC error information, and operating system initialization data. Boot Command Notations The boot command supports the following two notations: D Mnemonic D Path number Type help scsi or help lan for more information on the boot path parameters. Troubleshooting 4-7

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Troubleshooting
4–7
D
To find the location of the bootable operating systems on the various media in
the file system, use the
search
command.
Searching for Bootable Media
To list all devices that may contain bootable media, go to the Main Menu of the Boot
Console Interface and then type the following at the prompt:
Main Menu: Enter a command or a menu >
search ipl
The search may turn up more devices than there are lines on the display. If using a
text terminal, control the progress of the search from the terminal’s keyboard by per-
forming the following steps:
D
To hold the display temporarily, press
Ctrl
S
D
To continue the display, press
Ctrl
Q
D
To halt the search, press
Esc
These flow-control commands do not work with a bitmapped display, but such a
display can show more than forty lines of text, so they are unnecessary.
To search for devices of
just one type
that actually contain bootable media, go to the
the Main Menu of the Boot Console Interface and then type the following at the
prompt:
Main Menu: Enter a command or a menu >
search ipl
device_type
where
device_type
is one of the following:
fwscsi
is the built-in fast, wide SCSI bus
scsi
is the built-in single-ended SCSI bus
lan
is all connections to the built-in LAN
Stable Storage
Stable Storage is non-volatile memory associated with each PA-RISC processor mod-
ule. Stable storage is used by the processor (CPU) to store device path information,
the state of the boot flags, HPMC error information, and operating system initializa-
tion data.
Boot Command Notations
The
boot
command supports the following two notations:
D
Mnemonic
D
Path number
Type
help scsi
or
help lan
for more information on the boot path parameters.