HP-UX System Administrator's Guide: Routine Management Tasks

Example 2-1 Setting the autoboot delay using the EFI Boot Manager’s Boot Options:
1. Select “Boot Option Maintenance Menu” from the boot manager’s main
menu.
2. Select “Auto Boot TimeOut” from the boot option maintenance menu.
3. Select “Set TimeOut Value”.
4. Enter the number of seconds you want to use for the boot delay (for example
30).
Example 2-2 Setting the autoboot delay using the EFI Shell’s autoboot command:
To set the autoboot delay to 30 seconds, use the EFI Shell command:
autoboot 30
Enabling / Disabling Autoboot
The value of the autoboot flag can be set or changed in several ways:
Example 2-3 Enable Autoboot (using EFI Shell’s autoboot command)
Shell> autoboot on
Example 2-4 Disable Autoboot (using EFI Shell’s autoboot command)
Shell> autoboot off
Example 2-5 Enable Autoboot (using setboot from a running HP-UX system)
/usr/sbin/setboot -b on
Example 2-6 Disable Autoboot (using setboot from a running HP-UX system)
/usr/sbin/setboot -b off
Booting from an Alternate Boot Source
There are times when you will need to boot from a device other than the device that
you normally boot from. For example, if your primary boot disk fails, you will need
to boot your system either from a different disk or from another recovery medium.
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