HP-UX Virtual Partitions Administrator's Guide (includes A.03.04) (previously titled Installing and Managing HP-UX Virtual Partitions)

Chapter 9
nPartition Operations
Reconfiguring the nPartition
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In order to activate any cell that has been newly added,reboot the partition with the -R option.
Command succeeded.
2. Perform a Reboot-for-Reconfig (RFR) from a virtual partition. For example,
keira1# vparstatus
keira1# shutdown -R
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.
.
Transition to run-level0 is complete.
Executing "/sbin/reboot-R ".
Note: If this is a partitionable system, the requested reconfiguration will not take place until
all the virtual partitions on this hard partition are shut down and the virtual partition Monitor
is rebooted.
Shutdown at 16:09 (in 0 minutes)
At this point, the nPartition is in the Boot-Is-Blocked (BIB) state. The virtual partition keira1 remains
down until all the virtual partitions have been shutdown and the Monitor rebooted.
Note also that once the nPartition is in the BIB state, vparstatus shows the following message:
Note: A profile change is pending. The hard partition must be rebooted to complete it.
3. Shutdown the other virtual partitions. For example:
keira2# vparstatus
keira2# shutdown -R
.
.
.
Transition to run-level0 is complete.
Executing "/sbin/reboot-R ".
Note: If this is a partitionable system, the requested reconfiguration will not take place until
all the virtual partitions on this hard partition are shut down and the virtual partition Monitor
is rebooted.
Shutdown at 16:19 (in 0 minutes)
At this point, all virtual partitions have been shut down. The Monitor will reboot automatically. On the
console, we would see the following message:
All partitions have halted. System will now reboot for reconfiguration.
and the beginning of the boot process for the nPartition:
Firmware Version 21.3
Duplex Console IO Dependent Code (IODC) revision 2
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(c) Copyright 1995-2002, Hewlett-Packard Company, All rights reserved
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Cab/ Cell ------- Processor -------- Cache Size
Cell Slot State # Speed State Inst Data
---- ---- ------------ --- -------- ----------- ------ ------
0 0/0 Idle 0A 1000 MHz Idle 32 MB 32 MB
0B 1000 MHz Idle 32 MB 32 MB
1A 1000 MHz Idle 32 MB 32 MB
1B 1000 MHz Idle 32 MB 32 MB