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

NOTE: Because the EFI Shell (EFI file system) is not case sensitive “auto” and
“AUTO” (in the previous example) are considered equivalent.
As with HP-UX shells, in the above example the “>” character causes the echo
command’s output to be redirected to the “auto” file. If auto exists its contents
are overwritten. If auto does not exist it is created and will contain the output of
the echo command.
5. Verify the new contents of the AUTO file. Use the command cat AUTO to verify
that the contents of AUTO now reflect what you want them to.
Procedure 2-7 Changing AUTO from the HPUX.EFI Boot Loader (pre-boot)
To list and configure an HP-UX boot device’s AUTO file from within the HPUX.EFI
loader use the showauto and setauto loader commands.
1. Access the HPUX.EFI loader for the boot device that contains the AUTO file you
want to configure.
You can do this either by launching the loader from the EFI Shell interface, or by
selecting the device from the EFI Boot Manager and interrupting the HP-UX boot
process to access the loader’s HPUX> prompt.
NOTE: If you use the EFI Shell interface, be sure to select the correct boot device
before starting the HPUX.EFI boot loader or you might change the wrong AUTO
file. For details on how to select the correct device, see “Changing the AUTO file
from the EFI Shell (pre-boot)” (page 48).
2. At the HP-UX boot loader’s HPUX> prompt, enter the showauto command to
display the current contents of the AUTO file:
HPUX> showauto
\EFI\HPUX\AUTO => boot vmunix
HPUX>
3. Enter the setauto command to delete or modify the AUTO file.
• setauto -d deletes the AUTO file from the current boot device. You might
want to do this if you want to disable automatic booting.
• setauto string sets the AUTO file to contain the string specified.
The string specified must be of a form of the boot loader command. No other
HPUX.EFI commands are allowed in the AUTO file.
boot Specifies to boot the /stand/vmunix HP-UX
kernel with no boot options. For example:
setauto boot creates an AUTO file that
contains only the boot command.
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