To put a steak in the heart of this autoboot discussion.....

FOR ALL PERSONS WHO DO NOT OWN AUTORESTART/IX

1. Run EDITOR.PUB.SYS

2. Create a one line file with the following in it:

        START NORECOVERYCRLF    (of course you may put in whatever START parms you wish)

3. Using the CHANGE command replace CRLF with a carriage return and a line feed character.

4. Confirm this by listing the file with DISPLAY FUNCTIONS turned on, CRLF had better not be there.

5. KEEP AUTOBOOOT.PUB.SYS,UNN

6. Go into SYSGEN as MANAGER.SYS

7. Go into the SY section of sysgen

8. Make AUTOBOOT.PUB.SYS your autoboot file.

9. HOLD, EXIT, KEEP, make a SLT using the TA command.

10. =SHUTDOWN the system, boot from this tape, then UPDATE (no parameters)

11. Boot the system again, at the ISL> prompt turn on AUTOBOOT.

12. Your system will now boot itself.

Anybody see any typos?

Paul Courry



On Wed, 10 Feb 1999 10:59:39 +0100, G”tz Neumann wrote:

>Tusar Gupta wrote:
>>
>> I had specified the complete process as:
>>
>> - Create a file called AUTOIN with the "START -R [start options]"
>>    command
>> - Run FORMAT.HP36375.TELESUP .... Output will be AUTOOUT file
>    ##########################
>>
>> Goetz wrote:
>>
>> >The above steps only apply for customers using the AutoRestart/iX
>> >product (non FOS deliverable).
>>
>> The above process is to enable autoboot while booting and does not relate to
>> AutoRestart/iX.
>>
>
>I hate to be insistive, but the group HP36375.TELESUP is NOT part of FOS,
>it only gets installed with the SUBSYS product AutoRestart/iX. So your
>instructions above will not work for the majority of the group here.
>
>I have never tried if the '-R' option on START works on systems that do
>not have AutoRestart/iX installed, but I would expect that it would simply
>be ignored, if AutoRestart is not installed.
>
>Goetz.
>