topic Re: changing boot disk while within current OS in Operating System - HP-UX

changing boot disk while within current OS

Joshua Leckner_1 — Fri, 19 Apr 2002 15:42:31 GMT

Is there a way I can tell the HP OS to boot a different disk the next time it is booted....without having to change the boot prom??

All i want to do is tell the HP OS that is booted on the PRIMARY path to boot to the SECONDARY path the next time it is booted.

Thanx for the help.

Re: changing boot disk while within current OS

John Palmer — Fri, 19 Apr 2002 15:44:24 GMT

setboot

Regards,
John

Re: changing boot disk while within current OS

S.K. Chan — Fri, 19 Apr 2002 15:44:39 GMT

# setboot
===> displays the current boot path

To change ..

# setboot -p

# setboot -a

Re: changing boot disk while within current OS

hpuxrox — Fri, 19 Apr 2002 15:47:21 GMT

setboot -p primary -a alternate

Re: changing boot disk while within current OS

Deshpande Prashant — Fri, 19 Apr 2002 16:29:22 GMT

Hi
Following is small script I use to change boot sequence on next boot.
##------------------------------
#
# Use this script to change the boot sequence # using setboot command.
#
HP=`hostname`
BOOT_PATH_LOG=/home/system/Logs/${HP}_set_bootlog

exec 2>&1 >>${BOOT_PATH_LOG}
echo "##--------------------------##"
date
echo "#-------- Check boot Paths before change"
setboot

##check pri/alt paths
PRI_PATH=`setboot |grep Pri |awk '{print $4}'`
ALT_PATH=`setboot |grep Alt |awk '{print $4}'`

echo "\nCurrent Primary Path is ${PRI_PATH} "
echo "Current Alternate Path is ${ALT_PATH} "

## Change Primary and Alternate Paths
#set primary path
setboot -p ${ALT_PATH}

#set alternate path
setboot -a ${PRI_PATH}

echo "\n#-- Check boot Paths after change"
setboot
date
echo "##-------------------------##"

##-----

Thanks.
Prashant Deshpande.

Re: changing boot disk while within current OS

Joshua Leckner_1 — Fri, 19 Apr 2002 16:49:15 GMT

Thank you all.

I settled for the script.

Thanx again.