Autobooting the Monitor and All Virtual Partitions

You can setup the monitor and all virtual partitions to boot automatically at power up. To do this, make sure the following four conditions are met:

The computer's primary and alternate boot paths point to the boot disks of different partitions.
For example, to set the primary and alternate boot paths:
BCH> pa pri 0/0/2/0.6.0
BCH> pa alt 0/8/0/0.5.0
The autoboot flag in stable storage is set to ON.
To set the autoboot flag to ON:
BCH> au on
The contents of the AUTO files of the primary and alternate boot disks contain "hpux /stand/vpmon -a". (The -aoption of /stand/vpmon boots all the partitions that have the autoboot flag set.)
To set the contents of the AUTO file on the LIF, log into the virtual partitions that own the primary and alternate boot disks, respectively, and execute the mkboot -a command:
For example, after logging into winona1 which owns the primary boot disk at 0/0/2/0.6.0, execute:
winona1# mkboot -a "hpux /stand/vpmon -a" /dev/rdsk/c2t6d0
and after logging into winona2 which owns the alternate boot disk at 0/8/0/0.5.0, execute:
winona2# mkboot -a "hpux /stand/vpmon -a" /dev/rdsk/c1t5d0
The autoboot flag of all the partitions is set to AUTO.
AUTO is the default. However, if you need to reset the autoboot flag to AUTO:
winona1# vparmodify -p winona1 -B auto
winona1# vparmodify -p winona2 -B auto
winona1# vparmodify -p winona3 -B auto




	NOTE: All changes to stable storage can only be performed at the `BCH`> prompt. See ???. If you need to reboot the computer as part of the process to access the `BCH`>, see “Shutting Down or Rebooting the Computer”. For information on accessing and using the BCH commands, please see your hardware manual.

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