HPUX Secondary System Loader (hpux)

As mentioned earlier, the hpux utility manages loading the HP-UX kernel and gives control to the kernel. ISL can have hpux run an “autoexecute” file, or commands can be given interactively. In most situations, you would just want to automatically boot the system, however, in our example so far, we have decided to interact with IPL in the interest of looking at some of the functionality in ISL. We proceed with the boot process by simply issuing the HPUX utility name as shown in the following example:

ISL> hpux Boot : disk(0/0/1/1.2.0.0.0.0.0;0)/stand/vmunix 7094272 + 849200 + 724128 start 0x241068 alloc_pdc_pages: ...

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