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Table of Contents
  - Resetting the System
 
  
    - Soft Reset
 
    - Hard Reset
 
    - Resetting the System Using the Console
 
    
  - Determining and Selecting Input and Output (I/O) Paths
 
  - Testing the System
 
  - The Booting Process
 
  
    - Autobooting the System
 
    - Interrupting an Autobooting System
 
    - Interactively Booting the System with Autoboot Disabled
 
    - Bypassing the Disabled Autoboot Setting
 
    
  - System Startup Procedure
 
 
Separate firmware routines of processor-dependent code (PDC)
and input/output-dependent code (IODC) perform the system self-test
and initialization after resetting HP Precision Architecture hardware.
    
The initial program load (IPL), the first software retrieved
from the boot device, implements the operating-system-independent
portion of the bootstrap process. The initial system loader (ISL),
a boot-device- based IPL utility, provides the user interface for displaying
or modifying system startup functions.
    
    
     
    
     
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