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

Setting the Primary or Alternate Boot Paths
In the examples below, suppose you want the virtual partition winona2 to have its primary boot
disk at 0/8/0/0.5.0 and its alternate boot path at 0/8/0/0.2.0.
Using setboot
Because setboot affects only the virtual partition from which you execute the command, execute
these commands from winona2.
• 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
156 Monitor and Shell Commands