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

Installing, Updating, or Removing vPars and Upgrading Servers with vPars

Updating from vPars A.04.xx to A.05.xx

Chapter 4

NOTE If the BOOT and ALTBOOT disks are a mirrored pair, updating is not required on the

ALTBOOT disk. Otherwise, if you wish to have the alternate boot disk up dated, after

updating the OS on the primary boot path disk, boot the virtual partitions from the

alternate path boot disk and repeat the update-ux procedure. For example, if keira2 has an

alternate boot disk that is not a mirror of the primary boot disk, and you wish to update the

OS on the alternate boot disk, boot keira2 from the alternate boot path using:

MON> vparload -p keira2 -B ALT

and repeat the update-ux procedure:

keira2# update-ux -s depot1:/release/1131/HPUX11i-OE-Ent.DVD HPUX11i-OE-Ent T1335CC

6. Reboot the nPartition to ISL> or EFI.

Example:

MON> reboot

NOTE At this point, you need to reboot the nPartition from the MON> prompt, not just the virtual

partition. By rebooting the nPartition, you can load the new vPars Monitor in the next step.

7. If needed (depending upon how your nPartition’s autoboot conﬁguration is set up), interrupt the

nPartition boot process and load the vPars Monitor.

Example for PA-RISC:

BCH> bo pri

interact with IPL: y

ISL> hpux /stand/vpmon

Example for Integrity:

Shell> fs0:

fs0:\> hpux

HPUX> boot vpmon

8. Boot the virtual partitions.

Example:

MON> vparload -all

When the virtual partitions are booted, they will continue and complete their update processes (the

virtual partitions can be booed in any order). After this is completed, you should arrive at the login:

prompt for each virtual partition. Login as root and continue to the next step.

9. Turn autoboot and autosearch settings back to their original settings that you recorded earlier above.

Example:

keira1 # vparmodify -p keira1 -B auto

keira1 # vparmodify -p keira1 -B nosearch

keira1 # vparmodify -p keira2 -B manual

keira1 # vparmodify -p keira1 -B nosearch

keira1 # vparmodify -p keira3 -B auto

keira1 # vparmodify -p keira1 -B nosearch