HP-UX Virtual Partitions Administrator's Guide (includes A.03.05 and A.04.05)

Table 5-5 Boot Attempt Results of the autoboot and autosearch Values
resulting boot attemptautosearch
value
autoboot
value
no booting of the target virtual partition is attempted.
nosearchmanual
only the primary path is attempted
nosearchauto
attempt to boot the primary path; if boot fails, attempt to boot the alternate path.
searchauto
non-nPartitionable servers: no booting is attempted
nPartitionable servers: do not attempt to boot the primary path; attempt to boot the
alternate path. These actions match the nPartitionable firmware actions. For more
information, see the setboot(1M) manpage.
searchmanual
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