topic Re: what disk am I booted on? in Operating System - HP-UX

what disk am I booted on?

Dee_3 — Wed, 11 Apr 2001 13:19:59 GMT

I have a mirrored root disk that is set up (hopefully) to boot on the mirrored copy if the primary is unavailable. Without watching the boot - is there a command I can use that will tell me which disk I am booted on?

Re: what disk am I booted on?

James R. Ferguson — Wed, 11 Apr 2001 13:25:56 GMT

Hi Dee:

# setboot

...without any options will display your current bootpath.

...JRF...

Re: what disk am I booted on?

federico_3 — Wed, 11 Apr 2001 13:27:25 GMT

run:
#setboot

federico

Re: what disk am I booted on?

Edward Sedgemore — Wed, 11 Apr 2001 13:28:23 GMT

Setboot only shows what the boot path is set to, it doest not show you what you actually botted from. Eg. setboot shows the primary disk (usually 10/0.6) but you may have booted from the recovery CD or an ignite tape. This command shows you what you booted from;

echo boot_string/S|adb /stand/vmunix /dev/kmem

Re: what disk am I booted on?

Dee_3 — Wed, 11 Apr 2001 13:36:35 GMT

setboot indeed only shows what is primary or alternate not what I am currently booted on - Edward your answer gave me exactly what I needed - thanks to all...deec

Re: what disk am I booted on?

Marc Dijkstra — Wed, 11 Apr 2001 13:40:41 GMT

THE absolute debugger...

Most sysadmins (myself included!) are scared senseless of the adb phenomenon!

Thanks Edward, been lookin for that one...

MND