How to get out of ISL/IPL menu?

[John Wood_4]

I was trying to boot an HP 9000 PA-RISC system, but when prompted for "Interact with IPL?", I mistakenly said "yes".

How do I get out of the ISL> menu?

If I type "exit" or "quit", I get

"Not an isl command or utility."

(My solution was to use the Management Processor "RS" option to reset the system - but I guess there's a quicker/easier way?)

[Pete Randall]

Just tell it to continue booting by entering "hpux", which is the secondary system loader. It will proceed to load the kernel.


Pete

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi,

ISL> hpux

will boot to multiuser level.

Regards,
Robert-Jan

[John Wood_4]

Thanks for the replies. But what if I don't have HP-UX installed? (I want to install from an Ignite server).

[Pete Randall]

Then your RS approach is probably the only viable way out.


Pete

[Pete Randall]

I should add that you can do "ls" to see what commands/utilities are available to you. Typically, the only ones are "hpux", the secondary system loader, and ODE, a diagnotic that the Customer Engineer uses.


Pete

[Steve Post]

I would have run the command...."help". And yes. It's a guess. But I would expect the IPL to have some menu-ish information.

[Cem Tugrul]

http://docs.hp.com/en/IUX/faq.html