Occasions might arise when a boot is needed to perform special tasks such
as installing new or updated software, performing diagnostic checks, or for
maintenance. In this case, the system starts from a bootable medium such as
a CD-ROM, tape drive, network, or disk drive.
The maintenance boot sequence of events is similar to the sequence of a
normal boot.
At the end of this process, the system is ready for installation, maintenance,
or diagnostics.
If the system is booted from the hard disk, the rootvg is
varied on, the hard disk root file system and the hard disk user file system
are mounted in the RAM file system, a menu is displayed that allows you to
enter various diagnostics modes or single-user mode. Selecting single-user
mode allows the user to continue the boot process and enter single-user mode,
where the
init run level is set to "S". The system is
then ready for maintenance, software updates, or running the
bosboot command.