HP C100/110 manual Displaying and Setting Paths, Mnemonic Style Notation, Type Specification Format

The Boot Console Interface

Displaying and Setting Paths

Displaying and Setting Paths

A path is the hardware address of a device that is attached to the I/O system of your workstation. The path command sets the system paths shown in Table 24.

The path command sets and displays the hardware address of a specified device attached to the I/O bus of your workstation.

Table 24	System Paths
	Path Type	Device
	primary or pri	Your workstation’s default boot device (usually the root
		disk)
	alternate or alt	Your workstation’s alternate boot device (usually a DDS-
		format tape device)
	console or con	Your workstation’s primary display device
	keyboard or	Your workstation’s primary ASCII input device
	key

To display the current settings for the system paths, type the following at the prompt:

Main Menu: Enter a command or a menu > path

The paths are displayed in Mnemonic Style Notation, as shown in Table 25.

Table 25	Mnemonic Style Notation
	I/O Type	Specification Format
	Built-in FWSCSI	core.fwsci.scsi_address.logical_unit_number
	Built-in SCSI	core.scsi.scsi_address.logical_unit_number
	Built-in LAN	core.lan.server_address.init_timeout.io_timeout

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