The Boot Console Interface

Booting Your 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 ISL to be loaded, you must enter 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 workstation from the backup kernel (/stand/vmunix.prev), type the following at the ISL> prompt:

ISL> hpux /stand/vmunix.prev

•If you do not know which media in your file systems have bootable oper- ating systems, you can find them with the search IPL command.

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