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

NOTE: The system may appear but is actually not hung when booting from tape due to the
increased time it takes to load a kernel from tape instead of from disk.
Expert Recovery
When you are performing Expert Recovery, you need to remember the following:
• You can no longer read from or write to system-wide stable storage using setboot. See
“Setboot and System-wide Stable Storage ” (page 153).
• mkboot modifies the LIF area, but vPars does not use the LIF area to boot a virtual partition.
See “mkboot and LIF files” (page 25) and “The AUTO File on a Virtual Partition” (page 159).
• When you need to use boot options (for example, -isfor single-user mode or -lm for LVM
maintenance mode), see the sections “Booting a Virtual Partition” (page 150) and “Other
Boot Modes” (page 163).
• The HP-UX shell commands shutdown and reboot apply to the OS instance of a virtual
partition and do not shutdown or reboot the Monitor.
• There is no way to halt the hard partition from the MON> prompt. See “Shutting Down or
Rebooting a Virtual Partition” (page 150).
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