HP-UX 11i June 2001 Release Notes

Superdome Systems
New and Modified Superdome Commands (new at 11i original release)
Chapter 240
a “ready to reconfig” state and reboot automatically. The -R -H option
is used to shut down the system to a “ready to reconfig” state but without
rebooting. The “ready to reconfig” state is the state that a partition must
be put into before new cells that have been assigned to the partition can
be active or to complete the removal of cells that have been unassigned
from the partition. (A normal reboot will not activate newly assigned
cells.) See Managing Superdome Complexes: A Guide for HP-UX System
Administrators, part no, B2355-90702 for more information. The default
behavior or the behavior of all the other existing options remain
unchanged.
The interpretation of Autoboot and Autosearch in the command setboot
has changed for systems that support hardware partitions. The firmware
interprets the bits in combination and not individually as done before.
In order to approximate the traditional behavior of setboot, the user
input for the Autoboot and Autosearch flags is internally mapped to the
right combination to achieve the desired behavior. This mapping should
be transparent to the user of setboot, but might show up when
accessing the firmware using means other than setboot. For the
primary path, the boot action corresponds to the Autoboot and
Autosearch flags in the following manner:
Additionally, systems with hardware partitions support a boot action for
each path. However, the boot action for the paths other than the primary
path cannot be set using setboot. Instead, these must be set through
the Boot Console Handler using the pf command. The default boot
action for the hardware partitions is to "skip this device and try next
AutoBoot AutoSearch Boot Action
off off Go to the Boot Console Handler (BCH)
and prompt the user
on off Attempt the primary path; on failure go
to BCH
on on Attempt the primary path; on failure
try next path
off on Skip the primary path and try
alternate. If the alternate paths are not
configured boot or fail, go to BCH.