How to display the autoboot string

[S.Rider]

I can use "mkboot -a 'hpux -lq /stand/vmunix'" to put an autoexec-string out on the boot disk. But how can I display the strings that's on my vg00 boot disks current;y ?

[Tim Nelson · Accepted solution]

lifcp /dev/rdsk/cxtxdx:AUTO -

[Davis Paul]

Hi,
#lvlnboot -v :Display boot disks.
#setboot :give the boot path settings.
Best of Luck.

Regards,
Davis Paul.

[Davis Paul]

Hi,
#lvlnboot -v :give your boot disk.
#setboot :give the boot path settings.
Best of Luck.

Regards,
Davis Paul.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

# lifcp /dev/rdsk/c2t6d0:AUTO -
hpux -lq

Regards!

...JRF...

[Davis Paul]

Hi,
If you need to know your system has booted from which disk, use the following-
# echo "boot_string/S" | adb k /stand/vmunix /dev/kmem
Best of Luck.

Regards,
Davis Paul.

[S.Rider]

Thanks Tim & Jim - lifcp did it.

# lifcp /dev/rdsk/c0t8d0:AUTO -
hpux /stand/vpmon -a

[Torsten.]

This only applies to pa-risc based systems (HP9000 family)!

Example:

# lifcp /dev/rdsk/c2t0d0:AUTO -

result is

hpux -lq

[Torsten.]

Be careful!

hpux /stand/vpmon -a

is the boot string to boot the virtual partition monitor (vpmon)!

You are using vPars!

See the vPars manual on how to set vPar related boot strings.

[S.Rider]

Believe me, I know I'm running vPars. Building 3 more next weekend as a matter of fact. 8-)

[Torsten.]

And believe me, you would not believe what questions and even some lack of knowledge you can sometimes find here ... warning is the best one can do ...

;-)

Good luck!

[S.Rider]

Is there a different way to get it for Itanium servers ? There's about 30 of those in the mix here also. I was looking into efi_ls.

[Torsten.]

Try

# efi_cp -d /dev/rdsk/c3t2d0s1 -u /EFI/HPUX/AUTO /tmp/AUTO

# cat /tmp/AUTO

and use the correct device file ;-)

This will copy the AUTO file from the EFI to the HPUX file system.

[Torsten.]

Forgot to add the result should look like this:

boot vmunix -lq

(for non-vpars systems)