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Boot Console Handler
Booting The Workstation
Answering yes (
Y
) causes the ISL to be loaded from the specified device. After a short
time, the following prompt appears on your screen:
ISL>
ISL is the program that actually controls the loading of the operating system. By
interacting with ISL, you can choose to load an alternate version of the HP-UX
operating system. If you do not want to interact with ISL, you must enter no (
N
).
For example, if the usual kernel (
/stand/vmunix
) on your root disk (
fwscsi.6.0
) has
become corrupted, and you wish to boot your computer from the backup kernel
(
/stand/vmunix.prev
), type the following at the ISL> prompt and press
Enter
:
ISL>
hpux
/stand/vmunix.prev
• If you do not know which media in your file systems have bootable operating systems,
you can find them with the
search ipl
command. See the subsequent section