Recover from Accidental Ignite boot

[Andy McDade]

We accidentally booted a server from the ignite gui, and the system came up into the ignite console, awaiting instructions.
Now I reset the machine and booted from /stand/vmunix and the host is fine, but everytime we let it autoboot, the host goes back to the ignite console.
How can we stop it doing that, and get the host to boot normally?

[Bart Paulusse]

Hi Andy,

Ignite changed the contents of the AUTO file.

You need to change it back to automatically boot hpux:

mkboot -a "hpux -lq(;0)/stand/vmunix" /dev/rdsk/cXtXdX

(Where cXtXdX needs to be replaced with the values of your bootdisk)

regards,

Bart

[Chris Wilshaw]

Once your server is booted normally, type setboot at the command prompt - this will give you the devices that the server is trying to use to boot. You need to ensure that the paths are set to the appropriate disks for your system

eg:

Primary bootpath : 0/0/1/1.2.0
Alternate bootpath : 0/0/2/0.2.0

Autoboot is ON (enabled)
Autosearch is ON (enabled)