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    Boot From Disk

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    Use the adb command with echo statements and searching the output to find identifiers for the boot disk, then use additional commands like lssf to decode the hardware path of the boot disk based on the identifier, with the method varying depending on the HP-UX version and whether it uses LVM or VxVM for disk management.

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    Use the adb command with echo statements and searching the output to find identifiers for the boot disk, then use additional commands like lssf to decode the hardware path of the boot disk based on the identifier, with the method varying depending on the HP-UX version and whether it uses LVM or VxVM for disk management.

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    Use the adb command with echo statements and searching the output to find identifiers for the boot disk, then use additional commands like lssf to decode the hardware path of the boot disk based on the identifier, with the method varying depending on the HP-UX version and whether it uses LVM or VxVM for disk management.

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    Use the adb command with echo statements and searching the output to find identifiers for the boot disk, then use additional commands like lssf to decode the hardware path of the boot disk based on the identifier, with the method varying depending on the HP-UX version and whether it uses LVM or VxVM for disk management.

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    How to find boot disk from HP-UX

    Q: I need to document which disk was used to boot the currently running system.

    A: This is a bit tricky depending on the version of HP-UX, and whether it is using LVM or the less common choice, VxVM
    for disk volume management. Here are the steps:

    For LVM disks:

    For 11.11 and earlier, use the command:

    # echo "boot_string/S" | adb –k /stand/vmunix /dev/kmem


    boot_string:
    boot_string: disk(0/0/2/0.6.0.0.0.0.0;0)/stand/vmunix

    For 11.23, there are different ways for PARISC versus IA64:

    PARISC:

    # echo "boot_string/S" | adb –o /stand/vmunix /dev/kmem


    boot_string:
    boot_string: disk(1/0/0/3/0.6.0.0.0.0.0;0)/stand/vmunix

    IA64 (Itanium/Integrity):

    # echo "bootdev/x" | adb -n /stand/vmunix /dev/kmem


    bootdev:
    0x100001c

    Now to find the actual path, you’ll have to match the 0x100001c value to a minor number in the /dev/disk
    directory. Compare only the last 6 digits of the number (00001c) to find the device file. Then by using lssf, you
    can decode the hardware path:

    # DSK=$(ll /dev/disk | awk '/00001c/{print $NF}')


    # echo $DSK
    disk11_p2
    # HWPATH=$(lssf /dev/disk/$DSK | awk '{print $(NF-1)}')
    # echo "$DSK path = $HWPATH"
    disk11_p2 path = 64000/0xfa00/0xa

    You can use ioscan –m dsf to map agile device file names to legacy (CTD) style.

    For VxVM disks

    # echo "raw_root/X" | adb -o /stand/vmunix /dev/kmem


    raw_root:
    raw_root: 0x3000002

    This value is the minor number for the disk that was used to boot the current system. The minor number is found
    in the /dev/vx/dmp directory. Match just the last 6 digits to find the disk. It will be in legacy format.

    # DSK=$(ll /dev/vx/dmp | awk '/000002/{print $NF}')


    # echo $DSK
    c2t1d0s2
    # HWPATH=$(lssf /dev/dsk/$DSK | awk '{print $(NF-1)}')
    # echo "$DSK path = $HWPATH"
    c2t1d0s2 path = 0/1/1/0.1.0
    For completeness, I should mention that 11.31 will report the boot disk path in syslog.log like this:

    vmunix: Boot device's HP-UX HW path is: 0/1/1/0.0x1.0x0

    However, syslog.log is a catch-all for a lot of items and often needs to be truncated when it grows too large.
    As a result, it can’t be relied on to always contain the current boot disk.

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