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

NOTE: The boot device path that you specify in the setboot command (path in the

following examples) must be a valid HP-UX hardware path to a bootable HP-UX device.

Starting with HP-UX 11i version 3, the persistent DSF name and the lunpath hardware

path are valid entries to the setboot command, in addition to the legacy hardware path.

Regardless of the type of argument passed in input to setboot, setboot stores in stable

storage and displays in output an active lunpath hardware path to the device. This

lunpath hardware path may be automatically replaced by another active lunpath upon

failure of the initially configured lunpath. For more details, see the setboot(1M) in HP-UX

11i v3 white paper located on HP’s technical web site: http://docs.hp.com.

• Use the setboot -p path command, where path is a legacy hardware path, to

set the primary boot path, for example:

/usr/sbin/setboot -p 0/0/2/0/0.6

• Use the setboot -h path command where path is a lunpath hardware path,

to set the high-availability alternate boot path, for example:

/usr/sbin/setboot -h

0/5/1/0.0x50001fe15001eead.0x4001000000000000

• Use the setboot -a path command, where path is a persistent DSF, to set the

alternate boot path, for example:

/usr/sbin/setboot -a /dev/disk/disk13

Setting the PRI, HAA, and ALT Boot Paths Using the Boot Option Maintenance Menu in the EFI

Boot Manager:

You can use the Boot Option Maintenance Menu in the EFI Boot Manager to manage

the PRI, HAA, and ALT boot paths. Just remember that:

PRI The primary boot path (PRI) corresponds to the first boot option in the list

HAA The high-availability alternate boot path (HAA) corresponds to the second boot

option in the list

ALT The alternate boot path (ALT) corresponds to the third boot option in the list

NOTE: You can have more than three items in your boot options list. The first three

correspond to the boot paths as listed above. Additional items can be chosen manually

from the boot options list during a manual boot.

1. Select “Boot Option Maintenance Menu” from the EFI Boot Manager’s main

2. Use the following three Boot Option Maintenance Menu items to edit the boot

options list so that it reflects the devices on your system that you want to use for

your PRI, HAA, and ALT boot paths (and any additional boot paths you want to

add to the list):

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