HP-UX CSE(c) Official Study Guide and Desk Reference

We have a root/boot disk that is mirrored. Which of the disks should be assigned as the Primary Boot Path ? Will you be able to ascertain which disk your system has booted from when in multi- user mode?

Something has happened to our non-mirrored root/boot disk. We have lost the HP-UX secondary loader. Is this disk still bootable? Can we boot an HP-UX kernel with the disk in its current configuration? Will a maintenance mode boot help in this situation? If not, how will we remedy the situation?

The mkboot can rebuild our boot area if it becomes corrupt in any way. Previously, we had installed the Diagnostic subsystem, which included the Offline Diagnostic Environment ( ODE ) and other diagnostic tools that are stored in the LIF area. What will happen to the ODE and other tools if we use an mkboot command such as the following?

# mkboot /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0

Name three possible ways in which we can ensure that the ODE and other diagnostic tools are still available on this disk, but still recover the LIF area?

With the Recovery Shell's " Recover an unbootable HP-UX system ", there is this option: " Do not rebuild the bootlif, but install files required to boot and recover HP-UX on the root file system ". We have selected this option and subsequently rebooted the system. Will the system boot to multi-user mode? If not, why not and what must we do to remedy the situation?

On some newer servers there are three boot paths: Primary, High-Availability Alternate, and Secondary. Why do you think there are three boot paths instead of the original two, and why don't we have four or possibly five choices?