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hpux.efi(1M)
NAME
hpux.efi - HP-UX bootstrap for Itanium-based systems
SYNOPSIS
hpux.efi
[
-V
] [
-tm
DESCRIPTION
is the HP-UX-specific operating system loader utility for bootstrap. It is a native efi(4) applica-
hpux.efi
tion that can be run on the Itanium-based platform.
supports the following options:
hpux.efi
Display the release and version numbers of the
-V
Boot the system in tunable maintenance mode, also known as "failsafe boot" mode. This
-tm
option will disregard the tunable settings and module settings in the kenrel
configuration, and boot with known good settings instead.
Boot the system in VxVM maintenance mode, configure only the root volume, and then
-vm
enter single user mode.
The following commands can be given interactively from the keyboard or provided in an efi(4)
[file]
Load a kernel object file from an HP-UX file system and transfer control to the loaded
boot
image. (Note, the
limited to disk for booting. file can be the name of a kernel object file or the name of a
kernel configuration directory.
The following commands can given interactively from the keyboard only after
List the contents of HP-UX directories in detail.
ll
ls
List the contents of HP-UX directories.
showauto
Display the contents of the
string
Change the contents of the
setauto
boot Operation
The
operation loads an ELF kernel object file from supported HP-UX file system (HFS, VxFS). It
boot
then transfers control to the loaded image.
In addition to the kernel object file,
boot.sys
directory and kernel configuration-specific files from the configname
operation.
boot
always assumes
hpux.efi
myconfig/vmunix
/stand/myconfig/vmunix
Along with this information,
ring control to it.
The
operation accepts several options. Note that
boot
shown in the syntax statement in the SYNOPSIS. Options for the
run-level
Set the initial run-level for
-i
run-level specified in an
inittab(4).
boot
can load only ELF object files.
ll and ls Operations
The
and
operations list the contents of the HP-UX directory. In addition to filenames,
ll
ls
size and date information when used on supported HP-UX filesystems.
For VxVM disks, only boot volume (
mation, either a relative path to
HP-UX 11i Version 2: December 2007 Update
(Itanium(R)-based System Only)
] [
-vm
]
boot
operation is position-dependent). Currently,
AUTO
AUTO
hpux.efi
(the boot directory) as the current directory. For example,
/stand
would actually yield:
gives the sizes of the
boot
init
initdefault
) information can be displayed. To display boot volume infor-
/stand
or an absolute path can be used.
/stand
− 1 −
utility.
hpux
hpux
file.
file to string.
also loads persistent system-specific files from the
,
, and
TEXT
DATA
BSS
options must be specified positionally as
boot
operations are as follows:
boot
when booting the system. This run-level overrides any
entry in
/etc/inittab
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hpux.efi(1M)
AUTO
file.
hpux.efi
is
is launched.
/bootfs
directory during
segments before transfer-
. See init(1M) and
displays
ll
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