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

Add a Boot Option Presents you with a list of possible boot devices
and allows you to select one to add to your boot
options list
Delete Boot Option(s) Allows you to interactively delete one or more
entries from your boot options list
Change Boot Order Allows you to reorder your boot options list
3. When the boot options list for your system is as you want it, select “Exit” to
return to the EFI Boot Manager’s main menu (which should now reflect your new
edits to the boot options list).
Changing the Contents of an AUTO File on a Boot Device
On an HP Integrity Server, during an automatic boot (and some manual boots), the file
\EFI\HPUX\AUTO on the device you are booting from is used to locate the kernel file
to boot from.
Typically the contents of the AUTO file are “boot vmunix”. You can temporarily
override the contents of the AUTO file, for example to boot from an alternate kernel file
(see “Booting from an Alternate Kernel File” (page 44)), but if you want to boot from
the other kernel file by default, or want to regularly use certain boot options, you need
to change the contents of the AUTO file to reflect the appropriate settings.
NOTE: The AUTO file can only specify the boot command. To issue other hpux.efi
loader commands, you must interact directly with the loader.
There are three basic ways to change the contents of the AUTO file on a device. Two of
these can only be accomplished using the pre-boot EFI environment. The third can be
accomplished while HP-UX is running.
• Changing the AUTO file from the EFI Shell (pre-boot)
• Changing AUTO from the HPUX.EFI Boot Loader (pre-boot)
• Changing AUTO from a Running HP-UX Environment
Procedure 2-6 Changing the AUTO file from the EFI Shell (pre-boot)
This procedure cannot be done from a running HP-UX system. It assumes that your
system has not yet been booted. If you need to change the contents of a device’s AUTO
file while HP-UX is running, see “Changing AUTO from a Running HP-UX
Environment” (page 52).
To list and configure an HP-UX boot device’s AUTO file from the EFI Shell use EFI Shell
commands (such as cd, ls, and edit) to display and edit the EFI\HPUX\AUTO file
on the selected device.
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