topic Re: setboot info in Operating System - HP-UX

setboot info

Fern H2O — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:04:36 GMT

Hello All,

What is the difference between HA Alternate Bootpath & Regular Alternate Boot Path??

setboot
Primary bootpath : 0/1/1/0.0x5000c50017295c91.0x0 (/dev/rdisk/disk6)
HA Alternate bootpath :
Alternate bootpath : 0/1/1/0.0x5000c500172961d5.0x0 (/dev/rdisk/disk7)

Should they be the same? If not, can you give me an example of when they would be different?

Thanks,

Re: setboot info

Michal Kapalka (mikap) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:14:13 GMT

hi,

primary/alternate = system disk boot

Primary = first boot disk
Alternate = second disk from LVM mirror
HA Alternate = installation CD/DVD rom

example :

testsrv1:/>setboot -v
Primary bootpath : 0/1/1/0.1.0
HA Alternate bootpath :
Alternate bootpath : 0/1/1/0.0.0

testsrv1:/>ioscan -fnkC disk |more
Class I H/W Path Driver S/W State H/W Type Description
============================================================================
disk 0 0/0/2/0.0.0.0 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE TEAC DV-28E-N
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0 /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0
disk 1 0/1/1/0.0.0 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE HP 73.4GST373454
LC
/dev/dsk/c2t0d0 /dev/rdsk/c2t0d0
/dev/dsk/c2t0d0s1 /dev/rdsk/c2t0d0s1
/dev/dsk/c2t0d0s2 /dev/rdsk/c2t0d0s2
/dev/dsk/c2t0d0s3 /dev/rdsk/c2t0d0s3
disk 2 0/1/1/0.1.0 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE HP 73.4GST373454
LC
/dev/dsk/c2t1d0 /dev/rdsk/c2t1d0
/dev/dsk/c2t1d0s1 /dev/rdsk/c2t1d0s1
/dev/dsk/c2t1d0s2 /dev/rdsk/c2t1d0s2
/dev/dsk/c2t1d0s3 /dev/rdsk/c2t1d0s3

testsrv1:/>strings /etc/lvmtab
/dev/vg00
/dev/dsk/c2t1d0s2
/dev/dsk/c2t0d0s2

mikap

Re: setboot info

Torsten. — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:14:49 GMT

Since you can have 3 mirrors, you can also have 3 pathes.

This is the order:

Path Order = PRIMARY -> HA ALTERNATE -> ALTERNATE -> BCH

Re: setboot info

TTr — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:15:51 GMT

The man page says that HA Alternate is for servers that support hardware partition only.

http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-60105/setboot.1M.html

Re: setboot info

Vishu — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:34:28 GMT

Hi,

HAA Boot Path is only for those server which support Npar. This is a new concept related to booting in New Npar servers only. Boot Path priority is like

Primary -> HAA -> Alternate

Whereas, normal PA-RISC server are having

Primary -> Alternate.