checking boot string

[Michael Dalanek]

whats the command to see what my boot string is ?

[Stefan Farrelly · Accepted solution]

First do an; lvlnboot -v command to see your book disks.

Then for each disk which is listed as a boot disk you can do;

lifcp /dev/dsk/cxxxxx:AUTO $(tty)

This will display the boot string, eg. hpux

[Santosh Nair_1]

Once you have determined your boot disk using the lvlnboot -v command, you can do a lifcp /dev/dsk/c?t?d?:AUTO /tmp. This will copy the boot string to a file in /tmp named AUTO. It should read something like:
hpux (;0)/stand/vmunix

-Santosh

[Michael Dalanek]

Thanks for the speedy replies. Now I can see my boot string how do I change it ? I want to add the -lq option.

[Stefan Farrelly]

You change it with the mkboot command;

mkboot -a "hpux -lq" /dev/dsk/cxxxxxxx

Then use lifcp to reread it to ensure its been changed. Dont forget to do it on any book disk and the mirror disk if you have one.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Michael:

In addition to everything already offered, if you want to find out what disk and/or kernel you actually booted from do this:

# echo 'boot_string/S'|adb /stand/vmunix /dev/mem

You will see something like:

boot_string:
boot_string: disc(10/0.6.0;0)/stand/vmunix

...which can be quickly related to the disk device file by examining the output of 'lvlnboot -v'.

This is quite useful when you have mirrored boot disks and want to verify that you can/did, in fact, bot from the mirror.

Regards!

...JRF...