Answer:. First, you need to interrupt the boot process when prompted. This is useful to reset password and other tasks.
First, you need to tell HP-UX box to boot primary, it should give you a prompt to interact with the ISL. You should reply 'y' to this. Once at ISL> prompt type hpux -is or hpux -iS /stand/vmunix to boot into single user mode.
Booting HP-UX UNIX into Single User Mode
Use the following procedure to boot into single-user mode in HP-UX.Interrupt the boot process when prompted by pressing [ESCAPE] key. You will see message as follows:
Selecting a system to boot. To stop selection process, press and hold the ESCAPE key...OR
Autoboot from primary boot path enabled.Type boot pri isl at the prompt:
To override, press any key within 10 seconds.
boot pri
At the ISL> prompt:, type
hpux -is /stand/vmunix
OR
hpux -is
In above example, the -i option is used to make the system come up in run-level s, for single user mode of operation. /stand/vmunix is optional but some time required. Usually, 'hpux -is' is more than enough to boot into single user mode.
hpux is the HP-UX specific secondary system loader (SSL) utility for bootstrap. See man page for more information.
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