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NOTICE: Solving Problems Dealing with a Boot Failure Dealing with a Boot Failure If your usual boot device (typically a disk) is not responding as it should, you must try to boot from the disk (or another boot device) by selecting it manually. To boot a device manually, follow these steps: 1 Follow the directions in "Accessing the Boot Console Interface," in Appendix D of this book. Your workstation automatically shuts down the operating system before it terminates the power. 2 At the Main Menu prompt, type the following: Main Menu: Enter command > search ipl This causes your workstation to search exhaustively for bootable media. The search command looks for bootable media on your workstation. 3 Boot from one of the listed devices by typing the following at the prompt: Main Menu: Enter command > boot device where device is the hardware path to the device, specified in mnemonic style notation, such as sescsi.6.0 4 If your workstation still fails to boot, there is either something wrong with the file system or with the hardware. If you suspect a file system failure, see the manual Using HP-UX for help on dealing with file system failures. If you think that something is wrong with the hardware, continue reading this chapter for more troubleshooting information. 87