Ignite-UX Installation Booting

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In addition to booting with the -i3 flag (how you do this depends on the type of system you are
using), you can enable debug level logging during an installation or recovery before the Ignite-UX
Graphical User Interface (GUI)
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On the screen that provides the option to Install HP-UX, select Advanced Options. In the screen
that appears, scroll down to debug level and press
Enter to select level 3. The same amount of
detail is provided for levels 3, 4 and 5. This action starts debug level logging exactly as it would
from boot except that debug messages will appear once you have continued with the installation or
recovery (that is, selected
Install HP-UX from the main menu) instead of when init starts.
program starts.
Tip:
Unless told to use a different debug level by HP Customer Support or
you need to enable debug level logging, always use debug level 3.
If you are experiencing problems during initial device discovery (for example, some hardware is
not found), you must enable debug level logging from boot time. For more information, see
Debugging HP9000 booting problems: or Setting debug level logging on HP Integrity systems.
You may choose to enable debug level logging during an installation or recovery to avoid filling
the RAM file system to capacity when debug level logging is enabled from boot (it is more likely to
happen the more hardware you have attached to a system). A full RAM file system can cause an
installation or recovery session to fail if the RAM file system fills before the Ignite-UX GUI starts and
causes cosmetic issues with the GUI. However, it should not cause recovery problems after the GUI
is invoked.
Ignite-UX version C.7.0 and later also allows you to define the configuration variable
_hp_debug_level in the installation file system. If you set the debug level this way, it should only
be set to an integer value between 1 and 5. You will not see all the debug messages you would
see if you set the debug level via the boot loader, however this setting does take effect a very short
time after boot. Setting this configuration variable in any place other than the installation file system
has no effect on the debug level.
Important:
When using Ignite-UX versions before version C.7.0 you can set the
debug level to a number between 1 and 9. With Ignite-UX version
C.7.0 and above you must only use debug levels between 1 and 4
when providing a debug level to the boot loader
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The Ignite-UX Graphical User Interface helps you manage multiple, simultaneous installation or recovery sessions using tabs and dialog
boxes for task navigation.
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Do not boot using debug level 5 or above unless you have been requested to do so by HP Customer Support as part of a problem
investigation, you will be provided explicit instructions on what to do if you are asked to run in debug levels 5 or 6. You will not be asked to
boot with debug levels 7 to 9.