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Dealing with a Boot Failure

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Troubleshooting Dealing with a Boot Failure Dealing with a Boot Failure To start this workstation from an operating system stored on a device different from the usual boot device, to boot from a different disk, or to boot from another type of device (such as a DDS tape drive), see the following situations and examples that use the Boot Console Interface. To access the Boot Console Interface, see Chapter 9 of this book. • To boot from a known device containing a bootable operating system, type the following at the prompt: boot where device is the hardware path to the device, specified in Mnemonic Style Notation. For example, to boot an operating system stored on a DDS-format tape in a drive located at "scsi.1.0," go to the Main Menu of the Boot Console Interface and then type the following command at the prompt: boot scsi.1.0 The operating system on the specified device is used to start the workstation. • To interact with the Initial System Loader (ISL) before booting the workstation, type the following at the prompt: boot You are prompted: Interact with ISL (Y or N) > 56

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Troubleshooting
Dealing with a Boot Failure
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Dealing with a Boot Failure
To start this workstation from an operating system
stored on a device different from the usual boot
device, to boot from a different disk, or to boot from
another type of device (such as a DDS tape drive), see
the following situations and examples that use the
Boot Console Interface. To access the Boot Console
Interface, see Chapter 9 of this book.
To boot from a known device containing a bootable
operating system, type the following at the prompt:
boot
<device>
where
device
is the
hardware path
to the device, speci-
fied in Mnemonic Style Notation.
For example, to boot an operating system stored on a
DDS-format tape in a drive located at “scsi.1.0,” go to
the Main Menu of the Boot Console Interface and then
type the following command at the prompt:
boot
scsi.1.0
The operating system on the specified device is used to
start the workstation.
To interact with the Initial System Loader (ISL) before
booting the workstation, type the following at the
prompt:
boot
<device>
You are prompted:
Interact with ISL (Y or N) >