HP-UX System Administrator's Guide: Routine Management Tasks HP-UX 11i v3 (B3921-90023, September 2010)

Changing the PRI, HAA, and ALT Boot Paths........................................................44
Setting the PRI, HAA, and ALT Boot Paths Using the HP-UX setboot
Command:..........................................................................................................45
Setting the PRI, HAA, and ALT Boot Paths Using the Boot Option Maintenance
Menu in the EFI Boot Manager:..........................................................................46
Changing the Contents of an AUTO File on a Boot Device.......................................47
Booting into Single-User Mode................................................................................53
Booting into LVM (or VxVM) Maintenance Mode..................................................55
Booting HP-UX on HP 9000 (PA-RISC) Systems: Details and Variations.....................56
A Standard Boot (PA-RISC Systems).......................................................................56
Automatic Versus Manual Booting..........................................................................57
Overriding an Automatic Boot...........................................................................57
Enabling / Disabling Autoboot...........................................................................57
Changing the PRI, HAA, and ALT Boot Paths........................................................61
Booting PA-RISC Systems from an Alternate Boot Source......................................63
Booting from an Alternate Device......................................................................64
Booting from an Alternate Kernel......................................................................66
Changing the Contents of the Autoexecute File......................................................67
Booting into Single-User Mode................................................................................67
Booting into LVM Maintenance Mode.....................................................................69
Speeding the Boot: SpeedyBoot.....................................................................................69
System Boot Tests.....................................................................................................71
Viewing your System’s SpeedyBoot Settings...........................................................72
Configuring Boot-Time System Tests from the BCH Menu (HP 9000 Systems
Only)........................................................................................................................74
Configuring Boot-Time System Tests from the EFI Shell (HP Integrity Servers
Only)........................................................................................................................75
Configuring Boot-Time System Tests from a Booted System..................................76
Using setboot to Configure SpeedyBoot Settings................................................77
Breaking Out of the Boot Screen...................................................................................78
Customizing Start-up and Shutdown.................................................................................79
Shutting Down Systems......................................................................................................82
Types of Shutdown........................................................................................................83
Normal (Planned) Shutdown...................................................................................83
Power Failure...........................................................................................................86
Unclean Shutdowns.................................................................................................87
System Crashes / HP-UX Panics..............................................................................88
Single-User Mode.....................................................................................................88
Special Considerations for Shutting Down Certain Systems........................................88
Mail Server...............................................................................................................88
Name Server.............................................................................................................89
Network Gateway....................................................................................................89
NFS File Server.........................................................................................................89
NFS Client................................................................................................................90
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