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hpux.eﬁ(1M) hpux.eﬁ(1M)

(Itanium(R)-based Systems Only)

For VxVM disks, only boot volume (

/stand) information can be displayed. To display boot volume infor-

mation, either a relative path to

/stand

or an absolute path can be used.

setauto Operation

The

setauto operation overwrites the contents of the

autoexec ﬁle, AUTO, with the string speciﬁed.

showauto Operation

The

showauto operation displays the contents of the

autoexec ﬁle, AUTO. See autoexecute in the

EXAMPLES section.

EXAMPLES

Automatic Boot

This is an overview of HP-UX automatic boot processes on Itanium-based systems. When power is

applied to the HP-UX system processor, or the system Reset button is pressed, Itanium-based system

ﬁrmware code is executed to verify hardware and general system integrity (see boot (1M)). After initializ-

ing the hardware, the EFI

boot_manager is launched. The EFI

boot_manager gives the user the

option to automatically start any EFI application. After

hpux.efi is launched by the EFI

boot_manager, it looks for an AUTO

ﬁle and uses its content for the boot string. Then it gives the user

the option to override the

autoboot sequence by pressing any key:

*** HP-UX Boot Loader for IA-64 ***

*** Version #.# ***

*** Type ’help’ for help ***

Press Any Key to interrupt Autoboot

AUTO ==> boot vmunix -is

Seconds left till autoboot - 10

If hpux.efi does not detect a key press, it initiates the autoboot sequence using the AUTO

string.

hpux.efi displays messages similar to the following on the console:

AUTOBOOTING...

AUTO BOOT> boot vmunix -is

If hpux.efi successfully locates the kernel object ﬁle, it displays the progress of loading each sections

and the symbol table of the object ﬁle.

loading section 0

....................

loading section 1

......

Loading symbol table. Num of Sec Header(79)

Then it displays the progress of loading system- and kernel conﬁguration-speciﬁc directories.

Loading System Directory(boot.sys) to MFS

....

Loading Kernel Boot Directory(bootfs) to MFS

......

Finally, boot displays the complete path to the kernel object ﬁle loaded and the TEXT size, DATA size,

and BSS size of the load image before control is passed to the image.

Launching /stand/vmunix...

SIZE: Text:16308K + Data:1268K + BSS:2004K = Total:19581K

The loaded image then displays numerous conﬁguration and status messages.

Interactive Boot

To use

hpux.efi interactively, the user must interrupt the autoboot sequence by pressing a key or

removing the AUTO ﬁle. Then hpux.efi interactively prompts for commands.

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