Boot Process Overview
 | The boot process on an HP-UX system can be reduced in its simplist form to three steps. I'll provide a quick description of the three steps and then we'll take a look at some example boot processes so that we can see these three steps in action. The following is a description of the three steps: |
PDC | HP-UX systems come with firmware installed called Processor Dependent Code (PDC - man page pdc in Appendix A). After the system is powered on or the processor is RESET, the PDC runs self-test operations and initializes the processor. ... |
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