I find that there is a lot of confusion related to the boot process for new system administrators. To begin with, there is not much documentation that comes with new systems related to HP system boot. Second, without any background on the boot process, it is difficult to determine at which phase of the boot your system is at any given time. Table 1-1 shows some system states and the corresponding prompts that you can expect for each state in roughly the order you might see them at the time of system boot: Table 1-1. System Boot Prompts
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