topic Re: Auto boot string in Operating System - HP-UX

Auto boot string

RJA — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 10:20:21 GMT

One of my disks has the following auto boot string:

hpux -lq(;0)/stand/vmunix

Is a space required after the -lq ?
If so, how do I update?

Thanks

Re: Auto boot string

Pete Randall — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 10:24:45 GMT

You could start with a review of the man page for "hpux".

Pete

Re: Auto boot string

A. Clay Stephenson — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 10:34:20 GMT

You should have a space and the fix is very simple: issue another mkboot -a "hpux -lq ..." /dev/rdsk/cXtYdZ command. What is, perhaps, not so obvious is that you should have the "-lq" option asserted on both the primary and alternate boot disks because unless that is done, a mirrored system is actually less likely to boot unassisted than an unmirrored one.

Man mkboot and hpux for details.

Re: Auto boot string

RJA — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 12:17:02 GMT

Thanks .. This is what I was looking for,