PDC Help

You are now in the Processor Dependent Code (PDC) portion of the boot sequence. This is the first step in booting. It resides in firmware on the box and varies from HP to HP, so what you see may look a bit different (hence the name Processor Dependent Code). I will walk you through various interesting functions of PDC. First of all, there is some (lame) help available. Type help main to see the help for main, help boot, to see the help for boot, etc. Here is the help for main.

Main Menu: Enter command or menu > help main

---- Main Menu Help ----------------------------------------------------------

     The following submenus are available from the main menu:

     COnfiguration------------------------------------AUto
     INformation-----------------------ALL            BootID
     SERvice-------------              BootINfo       BootINf
                         CLEARPIM      CAche          BootTimer
                         SCSI          ChipRevisions  CPUconfig
                         MemRead       COprocessor    DEfault
                         PDT           FRU            FAn
                         PIM           FwrVersion     FastBoot
                         SELftests     IO             PAth
                                       LanAddress     SEArch
                                       MEmory         TIme
                                       PRocessor
                                       WArnings

                         BOot          BOot           BOot
                         DIsplay       DIsplay        DIsplay
                         HElp          HElp           HElp
                         RESET         RESET          RESET
                         MAin          MAin           MAin

     Type DIsplay to show the commands available from this menu.

Main Menu: Enter command or menu >