entries in /stand/bootconf

[Adam Noble]

Hi,

We had a problem recently with booting from the mirror on one of our servers. I can't recall ever having to manually edit the /stand/bootconf file on any system in the past. I have also tested booting of the mirror disk many times succedfully. I have noticed however on the majority of our systems we only have one entry for the primary disk within /stand/bootconf. Is this going to cause us problems?

Cheers

[Ninad_1 · Accepted solution]

Hi Adam,

Yes you need to update the /stand/bootconf file if you are creating a mirrored boot disk. This may not cause problems during booting, as the man page explains is required by the Software Distributor and HP-UX kernel control scripts to determine how and where to update the initial boot loader, if its required to do so. Thus if you do not have the entry there is a possibility of the lif area for the 2nd boot disk not getting updated.

Regards,
Ninad

[Torsten.]

Ninad is right as usual.

This is the text from the PA-RISC offline diagnostics installer for example:

"This fileset modifies the system boot LIF volume by installing
off-line hardware diagnostics and utilities into the system
LIF volume. The utility willl only load the diagnostics and
utilities on to a disk when the primary boot path matches the
at least one entry in the /stand/bootconf file."


Better to keep this file current.

Regarding boot problems:
Several patches about the boot loaders came out to address boot related problems. Check and install if needed (current patch bundle).

[Basheer_2]

Hi Adam,

I think i had the same problem. HP helped me to correct it.

setboot
must show the correct hardware paths.

your paths shown in lvlnboot -v and setboot must match.

usually this happens when you replace the boot disk.

[Srinivas Thokala_1]

The file /stand/bootconf needs to have entries with primary and alternate boot disk paths showing in each seperate line.

If primary disk entries are in the file, copy it to second line and change the address showing alternate path.

-Srini

[Avinash Agarkar]

/stand/bootconf must required the pri and alternate boot device path when the disks are mirrored.

Avinash