HP-UX Virtual Partitions Administrator Guide (includes A.05.08) (5900-1312, March 2011)

• To set the primary boot path:
winona2# setboot -p 0/8/0/0.5.0
• To set the alternate boot path:
winona2# setboot -a 0/8/0/0.2.0
Using vparcreate
Within the vparcreate command, you can specify the primary or alternate boot paths with the
BOOT and ALTBOOT attributes:
• To set the primary boot path:
winona1# vparcreate -p winona2 -a io:0.8.0.0.5.0:BOOT
• To set the alternate boot path:
winona1# vparcreate -p winona2 -a io:0.8.0.0.2.0:ALTBOOT
• Or to set both the primary and alternate boot paths on the same command line:
winona1# vparcreate -p winona2 -a io:0.8.0.0.5.0:BOOT -a io:0.8.0.0.2.0:ALTBOOT
Using vparmodify
If the virtual partitions are created already, you can specify the primary or alternate boot paths
with the BOOT and ALTBOOT attributes within the vparmodify command:
• To set the primary boot path:
winona1# vparmodify -p winona2 -a io:0.8.0.0.5.0:BOOT
• To set the alternate boot path:
winona1# vparmodify -p winona2 -a io:0.8.0.0.2.0:ALTBOOT
• Or to set the primary and alternate boots paths on the same command line:
winona1# vparmodify -p winona2 -a io:0.8.0.0.5.0:BOOT -a io:0.8.0.0.2.0:ALTBOOT
Using Primary and Alternate Paths with nPartitions
The vPars database and the nPartition complex profile are entirely separate. Therefore, a change
in the vPars database does not change any complex profile data.
A change in the primary or alternate paths in the vPars database does not change the primary or
alternate paths in the complex profile. To change the primary or alternate paths for both a virtual
partition and its nPartition, you must change the paths for each separately.
NOTE: For an EFI system, the above is true even if you use parmodify to change the paths.
parstatus will show them as set; however, once the system is booted into nPars mode, those
changes by parmodify are not retained.
Example
Original Status:
Suppose a vparstatus output of keira1 showed the alternate boot path to be 0/0/6/0/0.6.0
(irrelevant output omitted):
keira2# vparstatus -p keira1 -v
[Virtual Partition Details]
Name: keira1
State: Down
Attributes: Dynamic,Autoboot
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