topic Setboot -s on in Operating System - HP-UX

Setboot -s on

Prashant Zanwar_4 — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 15:18:55 GMT

my setboot command is just hanging or it gives error unable to talk to io boot path..
I am not seeing any errors on system..
I could see disks are alright
setboot -s on is what i am trying on HPUX 11.11 system, with patches applied of sep'04
anyone came across this prob? anytime and is rp7420 with no partitions
Rgds
Prashant

Re: Setboot -s on

Pete Randall — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 15:25:19 GMT

Check the WARNINGS section of the man page for setboot:

"The interpretation of Autoboot and Autosearch has changed for systems that support hardware partitions."

This may be having some effect.

Pete

Re: Setboot -s on

Devender Khatana — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 15:39:46 GMT

Hi,

Another possible reason could be Firmware Version. Warning related to this is also visible in man page. I have both partioned and unpartioned versions of RP7420 and setboot works absolute fine on both of them.

HTH,
Devender

Re: Setboot -s on

Prashant Zanwar_4 — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 15:53:04 GMT

thanks for reply.. is there any other method which i can use to write this setting to system?

Thx
Prashant

Re: Setboot -s on

Devender Khatana — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 16:07:57 GMT

Hi,

It seems that autosearch is disabled. The warning section of "man setboot" clearly indicates the combination.

The other way of changing these settings is at BCH menu which is not possible without reboot.

Capture from man setboot

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Additionally, systems with hardware partitions support a boot action
for each path. However the boot action for the paths other than the
primary path cannot be set using setboot. Instead, these must be
set through the Boot Console Handler using the pf command. The
default boot action for the hardware partitions is to "skip this
device and try next path". The case where both the autosearch and
autoboot flags are on will not work as expected until the path flags
for the alternate paths are set appropriately through the BCH. In
the default case, specifying setboot -b on -s on will not cause an
alternate path to be automatically booted when the primary path
fails, instead the user will be prompted.

HTH,
Devender

Re: Setboot -s on

Indrajit_1 — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 16:56:18 GMT

Hi;

U just need to type

#setboot

see the output carefully

To change the setting

#setboot -a

For more information man setboot or setboot --help

Cheers
Indrajit