boot IUX recovery tape to recovery shell

[Denver Osborn]

I'm looking for some help regarding an Ignite-UX recovery tape and having it run the "recovery shell" without the need to select it from the UI menu.

So far it doesn't look like IUX was designed to do this, so I can't find any options similar to the "run_ui=false" and "control_from_server=false" that would tell it to go directly to a recovery shell.

What I am hoping to accomplish is creating a boot image w/ 32bit and 64bit kernels. The "INSTALLFS" filesystem would have a few custom scripts in it that would be used to "wipe" disks on the system. I liked IUX for this purpose because INSTALLFS is loaded in memory, so I wouldn't need to create any filesystems on disk. Has anyone tried to create a "live cd" for hp-ux?

If anyone knows of a way I could do this, please post your thoughts! :)

Thanks,
-denver

[Michael Roberts_3]

On media if you have SYSCMDS[IA] and RECCMDS[IA] but _do not_ have
INSTCMDS[IA] the menu only has recovery shell as an option.

Booting from a server, if you set 'control_from_server=true' you can
echo 'recovery_shell' into
/var/opt/ignite/clients/[client name]/server.instr
and cause the recovery shell to be loaded.

[Denver Osborn]

Michael Roberts helped me solve this one! Although I didn't use the recommendation from above, he left a good doc under another thread...
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=957297

I'm able to boot an IUX tape right into a shell.

Thanks!
-denver