On Tue, 11 Jul 2000 13:58:14 -0500 (Central Daylight Time), Stan
Sieler <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Re:
>
>> I have enabled the auto reboot flag at the ISL prompt but when rebooting I
>> get the following error "Cannot find an Auto-execute file auto boot
>> aborted".  Where do I set up this file and does it need to have a specific
>> name. I am looking for this file to do a start norecovery. TIA
>
>You need to create a simple ASCII file like:
>
>:fcopy from=autoboot.mpexl.sys;to=;char;hex
>
>AUTOBOOT.MPEXL.SYS RECORD 0 (%0, #0)
>
>0000: 7374 6172 7420 6E6F 7265 636F 7665 7279 start norecovery
>0008: 0A00 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 ..
>0010: SAME: TO 0024-1
>EOF FOUND IN FROMFILE AFTER RECORD 0
>
>(I.e, "start norecovery" followed by a linefeed and/or a null ... I'm not
>sure what's 100% necessary, but I know that the above file works :)
>
>Then, in SYSGEN:SY, use the "AA" command to tell the system you want to
>use that autoboot file, cut a new SLT tape, and UPDATE from it (ugh!).
>
>That's the short-hand description of the official method.  I generally
>just poke the information into LIFDIREC (the LIF directory), but that's
>riskier and harder to describe :)
>
>
>Stan Sieler                                           [log in to unmask]
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Hi
I also thought that the autoboot should be on ldev 1 ??
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