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

# setboot -a mirror_disk_hw_path
• Execute the vparefiutil command on the new disk.
# vparefiutil -u [-H mirror_disk_hw_path]
• Booting from a recently added boot disk.
Problem:
If you add a boot disk at a known hardware path, it may not be possible to immediately
boot from this new disk.
Solution:
• If the EFI signature of the disk is known, the vparload -E command can be used to
boot from the disk.
Monitor: Booting the vPars Monitor
To boot the vPars Monitor, from ISL or EFI, specify /stand/vpmon:
— PA-RISC:
ISL> hpux /stand/vpmon
— Integrity:
Shell> fs0
fs0:\> hpux
HPUX> boot vpmon
NOTE: You must be in vPars mode to boot the Monitor. See “Modes: Switching between
nPars and vPars Modes (Integrity only)” (page 118). Also, backspace is sometimes not
parsed correctly; if the command fails, try again without backspacing.
With no arguments to vpmon, the Monitor will load and go into interactive mode with the
following prompt:
MON>
The following options are available when booting the Monitor:
boots all virtual partitions that have the autoboot attribute set. For more information,
see vparmodify(1M).
-a
boots the virtual partitions using an alternate partition database file. For more
information, see “Using an Alternate Partition Database File ” (page 167). The default
partition database file is /stand/vpdb.
-D database_filename
For more information on the vPars boot sequence, see “Boot Sequence” (page 32).
Monitor: Accessing the Monitor Prompt
You can reach the Monitor prompt in the following ways:
• From the ISL or EFI prompt, you can boot the Monitor into interactive mode (see “Monitor:
Booting the vPars Monitor” (page 126)).
• After shutting down all virtual partitions, you will arrive at the Monitor prompt on the
console (see “Shutting Down or Rebooting the nPartition (OR Rebooting the vPars Monitor)”
(page 152)).
• A.03.xx and earlier: When the system monarch CPU is not owned by any virtual partition,
you will also see the Monitor prompt MON> while toggling among the virtual consoles.
A monarch CPU exists in both non-vPars and vPars servers. After a server is powered-on,
the monarch CPU determines what other CPUs are configured in the server and then launches
126 Monitor and Shell Commands