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Installation
Setting Boot Parameters
II.
BOOT COMMAND DESCRIPTIONS
Primary
Alternate
Autoboot
Path
3-60
Boot from primary boot path.
points to the device used to boot the operating
system (usually the system disk).
Boot from alternate boot path. The alternate boot
path points to the device (typically a tape drive)
used to load the operating system from the
distribution media.
Set autoboot flag TRUE or FALSE.If autoboot is TRUE,
the system automatically boots when powered up.
(More precisely, it loads the software on the
primary boot device.)
process pauses for 10 seconds to allow the operator
to stop the boot process.
If the autoboot flag is modified, the new setting
takes effect when the system is powered up again.
Syntax:
AUTOBOOT <boolean>.
TRUE
FALSE =
Example:
AUTOBOOT TRUE
Change/display paths kept in Stable Storage.
Syntax: PATH[<path_type> [ <new_path> ]]
<path_type> is one of:
P = primary boot path
A = alternate boot path
C = console path
U = update path
<new_path> = a path description
Examples:
PATH
Displays all paths
PATH A
Displays only alternate path
PATH P 0/52.0
Changes primary path to 0/52.0
The primary boot path
During an autoboot, the
For <boolean>:
=
T = 1
F = 0
or
B TRUE
or
B T
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