HP-UX 11i System Administration Handbook and Toolkit, Second Edition

Background

The following is a bullet list of topics I'll cover in this chapter:

• An overview of the boot process.

• Boot Control Handler (BCH) and Processor Dependent Code (PDC.)

• Initial System Load (ISL).

• Secondary System Load (hpux.)

• Consoles (Local, Remote, LAN, and Secure Web Console.)

• Secure Web Console.

• Guardian Service Processor (GSP.)

• Booting and boot states of Virtual Partitions (vPars.)

• Introduction to the Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) on Itanium-based systems.

• There is a tear-out card included with the book with a lot of useful boot and firmware-related information.

• There are some man pages related to boot in Appendix A.

As you can see from the list there is a lot to cover related to booting in HP-UX systems. In the first few sections of ...