white paper on PDC,BCH, LIF, ISL,hpux

[martin_215]

I am trying to get an idea of the booting steps of an hp-ux 9000 server
for eg how these components interact and what steps happen in the booting procedure
basically function of PDC,BCH,LIF,ISL,hpux etc
the lower level routines before the kernel is loaded

I couldnt find much description in docs.hp.com documents

I am a solaris person.its quite straightforward in solaris-just bootblk,ufsboot or inetboot.thats all.but hp-ux is more complicated


Can anyone suggest a reading or white paper on this

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi Martin,

Check these links.

http://www.hp.com/workstations/risc/standard/operating/index.html

http://www.hp.com/workstations/risc/standard/operating/easy_hpux11/solaris/dir_mappings.html

http://www.hp.com/workstations/risc/standard/operating/easy_hpux11/solaris/task_guide.pdf

Hope this helps,
Robert-Jan

[Olivier Decorse · Accepted solution]

Hi, martin,

THE hp-ux reference for booting (pdc, isl, etc) can be found at this location :
www.itrc.com, on the left : HP products, knowledge tree, HP-UX Software Recovery Handbook, choose the chapter 2 : Chapter 02 - System Boot and you will see that all is explained !!!

Olivier.

[martin_215]

Thanks Oliver and Robert for the reply

unfortunately I dont have a support contract.This is just for my personal hp machine at home.
I know I am asking too much,but if someone could send me that doc from knowledge tree which Oliver mentioned,that would be phenomenal
martin211976@yahoo.com

[Daryl Much]

also check 'man 1m hpux'. about 1/2 way thru is overview...

hth,

Chuck Davis

[martin_215]

unfortunately I dont have a support contract.This is just for my personal hp machine at home.
I know I am asking too much,but if someone could send me that doc from knowledge tree which Oliver mentioned,that would be phenomenal
martin211976@yahoo.com