stop booting process

[shadi]

On a hp-ux workstation Visualize B2000 I'm not able to enter the boot menu. When booting I don't get the "Discontinue booting ... 10sec" message ( when autoboot is on )and it continue booting directly (after the 15sec monitor selection option) from the primary path.
I need to stop the booting process and enter the boot menu.

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

Did you try pressing tab on boot up?..

Don't wait for the prompt.
Apart from that someone possibly assed a password feature, but you should be able to get to this in either case.

Bill

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

Try removing the disks :)

Later,
Bill

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

sorry it's esc an not tab (as soon as the monitor comes up)

Bill

[Trond Haugen]

Sounds like your system is booting in secure mode as the boot can't be interrupted. As Bill says you will have to physically disconnect the disks.

Regards,
Trond

[Sukant Naik]

Hi Shadi,

You can disable the autoboot while your workstation is up by using the setboot command.

# setboot
Primary bootpath : 8/4.5.0
Alternate bootpath : 8/16/5.0.0

Autoboot is OFF (disabled)
Autosearch is OFF (disabled)

# setboot -b on
# setboot
Primary bootpath : 8/4.5.0
Alternate bootpath : 8/16/5.0.0

Autoboot is ON (enabled)
Autosearch is OFF (disabled)

Then reboot the server.

Regards,

Sukant

[Sukant Naik]

Hi Shadi,

I have quoted the wrong thing in the earlier mail.

I just checked the setboot command and rebooted the server.

You need to use
# setboot -b off
# setboot
Primary bootpath : 8/4.5.0
Alternate bootpath : 8/16/5.0.0

Autoboot is OFF (disabled)
Autosearch is OFF (disabled)

This will straightaway stop the booting and take you to the Main menu while booting the workstation.

Sorry for the wrong info sent to you in my previous mail.

Regards,

Sukant