Initial System Loader

As mentioned earlier, the Initial System Loader (ISL) is run after the PDC. You would normally just run an “autoboot” sequence from ISL; however, there are a number of commands that you could run from the ISL prompt.

Picking up where we left off in the previous example, we have chosen to BOot off device p0 and interact with IPL as shown in the following example:

Main Menu: Enter command or menu > bo p0
Interact with IPL (Y, N, or Cancel)?> y

Booting...
Boot IO Dependent Code (IODC) revision 1


HARD Booted.

ISL Revision A.00.38  OCT 26, 1994

ISL> ? HELP Help Facility LS List ISL utilities AUTOBOOT Set or clear autoboot flag ...

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