Compaq C180, C240, C200, C360, C160 manual Dealing with a Boot Failure

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:

1Follow the directions in “Accessing the Boot Console Interface,” in Appendix D of this book.

NOTICE:Your workstation automatically shuts down the operating system before it terminates the power.

2At 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.

3Boot 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.

4If 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-UXfor help on dealing with file system failures. If you think that some- thing is wrong with the hardware, continue reading this chapter for more trouble- shooting information.

5Verify that your SCSI devices are properly terminated, with SCSI terminators in place and properly connected.

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