HP-UX Virtual Partitions Administrator's Guide (includes A.05.02)

Monitor and Shell Commands
Setboot and System-wide Stable Storage
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Setboot and System-wide Stable Storage
On a vPars system, the setboot command does not read from or write to system-wide stable storage. Instead,
the setboot command reads from and writes to the vPars partition database, affecting only the entries of the
virtual partition from which the setboot command was run.
For example, if you are logged into winona2 and execute the command:
winona2# setboot -b on
this would set the autoboot attribute to AUTO for the virtual partition winona2.
The actions of setboot on a virtual partition are:
NOTE
• To modify stable storage, you must either:
— go into standalone/nPars mode and use setboot or parmodify
— within the vPars environment on PA-RISC nPartitionable servers, use parmodify
(parmodify is not supported from within the vPars environment on Integrity servers
— go to the BCH for PA-RISC or EFI Shell for Integrity systems
For more information on using the above firmware or HP-UX commands, see the document
nPartition Administrator’s Guide, Managing Systems and Workgroups (11.11, 11.23) or
HP-UX Systems Administrator’s Guide (11.31), available at http://docs.hp.com.
• The boot path setting for HAA (High-Availability Alternate) is not supported for vPars
instances. For more information on HAA, see the nPartition Administrator’s Guide.
See also “EFI and Integrity Notes” on page 40 for information on EFI variables and booting.
setboot
option
vPars effect
-p changes the primary boot path of the virtual partition
-a changes the alternate boot path of the virtual partition
-s sets the autosearch attribute of the virtual partition
(pre-A.03.02: no effect)
-b sets the autoboot attribute of the virtual partition
no options displays the primary boot path, alternate boot path, and autoboot attribute of the
virtual partition