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Dealing with a Boot Failure
If your usual boot device (typically a disk) is not responding as it should. you must
attempt to boot from the disk (or another boot device) by selecting it manually.
To boot a device manually, follow these steps:
1.
Turn off the power to the workstation, wait a few seconds. then turn the pow-
er back on.
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Press Esc
.
In a few seconds, this message appears:
Terminating
selection
process.
A short time later, this message appears:
Searching
for potential
boot
devices.
To terminate
search,
press
and hold
the ESCAPE
key.
Device
Selection
Device
Path
Device
Type
and Utilities
Your workstation is now searching for devices that may hold file systems
from which it can boot HP–UX.
As they are found, they appear in a list,
similar to the following sample list:
Po
scsi.6. O
QUANTUM
PD42 5S
PI
scsi.5. O
Quantum
PD425S
P2
scsi.2. O
TOSHIBA
CD–ROM
DRIVE
P3
lan.123456–789abc
homebase
Thisprocess maytake several minutes. Youcanterminate thesearch atany
o
time bypressing
ESC .
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