/opt/ignite/boot/boot_lif). This new format is capable of showing you a menu-like selection and asking you to choose a kernel to boot. Of course, to provide for non-interactive installation and recovery, there is a time-out value for a response and a default response.

With PA-RISC systems using Ignite-UX version C.6.0.x or later, an HP-UX B.11.11 kernel is used to install and recover HP-UX B.11.11 systems, and an HP-UX B.11.23 kernel is used to install and recover HP-UX B.11.23 systems. You cannot install or recover HP-UX B.11.11 systems using the HP-UX B.11.23 kernel, and the HP-UX B.11.11 kernel cannot install or recover an HP-UX B.11.23 system. There is only a 64-bit HP-UX B.11.23 PA-RISC kernel. Ignite-UX prevents you from performing an unsupported installation using an incorrect kernel during installation.

Note the following:

∙Currently, auto_adm only affects PA-RISC systems. There is only one Itanium®-based kernel shipped with Ignite-UX; no method is required to select between it and another kernel.

∙This command exists from Ignite-UX version C.6.0.x onwards.

∙With Ignite-UX version C.6.0.x, the new auto_adm formats in the AUTO file provide an enhancement to the current form of the AUTO file; they are not a replacement.

Looking at auto_adm

As stated in the auto_adm(1M) manpage, the following forms are allowed:

/opt/ignite/bin/auto_adm -n -T timeout -M message -l label -c command -b device -i image [-o outfile] [-O output_format] [-?]

/opt/ignite/bin/auto_adm -a -l label -c command -b device -i image [-f infile] [-o outfile] [-O output_format] [-?]

/opt/ignite/bin/auto_adm -A appendfile -f infile [-o outfile] [-O output_format] [-?]

/opt/ignite/bin/auto_adm -L label record_modifier [-f infile] [-o outfile] [-O output_format] [-?]

/opt/ignite/bin/auto_adm -d -L label [-f infile] [-o outfile] [-O output_format] [-?]

/opt/ignite/bin/auto_adm -D -L label [-f infile] [-o outfile] [-O output_format] [-?]

/opt/ignite/bin/auto_adm -T timeout [-f infile] [-o outfile] [-O output_format] [-?]

/opt/ignite/bin/auto_adm -M message [-f infile] [-o outfile] [-O output_format] [-?]

ISL and CONF format data

CONF data

The auto_adm manpage does not correctly document all of the allowed combinations of options. For instance, the preceding forms of the command do not allow the following example:

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