bypassing the ISL

[Jeff Hagstrom]

Everytime we reboot the box, it stops at the ISL menu and we have to manually boot into live. How do we bypass that menu and go right into the box?

[Pete Randall]

You need to set autoboot and, possibly, autosearch. Have a look at the man page for setboot.


Pete

[Ivan Krastev]

Can you paste the output from setboot commands.
See also autoboot/autosearch options in man page - http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-90692/setboot.1M.html


regards,
ivan

[Torsten.]

From boot menu:

Main Menu: Enter command or menu > co au bo on

Configuration Menu: Enter command > au

Autoboot: ON
Autosearch: ON

From running OS:

# setboot -b on

[Matti_Kurkela]

The setboot command and the autoboot and autosearch options are related to the PDC menu.

If the problem is that the boot stops at the _ISL_ menu, the problem is that the boot LIF has no valid AUTO file in it. The AUTO file should contain "hpux", "hpux -lq" or whatever you prefer to use to get the system past the ISL menu manually.

The AUTO file is easiest to recreate using the "mkboot -a" command.

Example:

mkboot -a hpux /dev/rdsk/

or, in a MirrorDisk/UX mirrored boot disk:

mkboot -a "hpux -lq" /dev/rdsk/
mkboot -a "hpux -lq" /dev/rdsk/

As the boot LIF is outside the LVM-managed area of the disk, it will not be mirrored automatically.

MK

[Torsten.]

You are right Matti, but Jeff stated in his duplicated thread (deleted) that he has to do a "bo pri" at the stage where it stops to continue the boot.