HP-UX 11i September 2001 Release Notes

Hard Partition Systems

New and Modiﬁed Hard Partition Commands (new at 11i original release)

Chapter 2

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 path." The case where both the Autosearch and Autoboot ﬂags are “on” will not

work as expected until the path ﬂags for the alternate paths are set appropriately

through the BCH.

In the default case (when the HAA boot path is not set to “boot from the path”), specifying

setboot -b on -s on will not cause an alternate path to be automatically booted when

the primary path fails. Instead the user will be prompted.

Documentation Changes

Eight new manpages have been added which document the syntax and usage of the new

commands. The manpages of reboot (1M) and shutdown (1M) have been updated to

document the -R and -H options. The manpage of the setboot (1M) command has been

updated.

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.