topic lif on hp ux itanium platform in Operating System - HP-UX

lif on hp ux itanium platform

xianjun_1 — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 08:44:16 GMT

hello.
if I use lifls on hp ux in itanium platform, the following will as below. As I know, this kind of system use EFI for booting, EFI have a bootstrap program hpux.efi. so ISL, HPUX here listed by lifls will be useless on itanium. am I right? thanks.

lifls -l /dev/rdisk/disk11_p2
volume ISL10 data size 7984 directory size 8 09/10/13 17:12:26
filename type start size implement created
===============================================================
ISL -12800 584 242 0 09/10/13 17:12:26
AUTO -12289 832 1 0 09/10/13 17:12:26
HPUX -12928 840 1024 0 09/10/13 17:12:26
PAD -12290 1864 1468 0 09/10/13 17:12:26
LABEL BIN 3336 8 0 09/11/24 09:38:32

Re: lif on hp ux itanium platform

Dennis Handly — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 09:52:26 GMT

>listed by lifls will be useless on Integrity. am I right?

It sure seems like it:
# lifls -l /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s2
volume ISL10 data size 7984 directory size 8 07/01/10 17:13:32

efi_ls -d /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s1 EFI
FileName Last Modified Size
HPUX/ 4/ 7/2008 0
...

Re: lif on hp ux itanium platform

smatador — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:23:07 GMT

Hi,
I don't understand your question; do you mean as I suppose, if ISL is useless on Itanium could I remove it ? In fact I have the same wondering :)

Re: lif on hp ux itanium platform

TARUN SHARMA_1 — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 07:06:52 GMT

Only the EFI Part is different for Itanium compared to Parisc in terms of booting.
But EFI will definitely look for AUTO and HPUX from the LIF volume.