HP-UX Virtual Partitions Release Notes (A.05.10)

Stored message buffer up to panic:
5028, 0x11, 0x40).
pinned_pdk_malloc_avail_contig(): 0x33000
Bad News: Cannot use the Kernel Stack when interrupted on the ICS.
Bad News: Fault/trap with interrupts disabled and we cared.
reg_dump(): Displaying register values (in hex) from the save state
...
System Panic:
double panic: Bad News!
Workaround
After the system comes back up, make sure the system is in the mode you want (vPars or
nPars), then boot the appropriate item (vpmon for vPars mode and vmunix for nPars mode).
Related information
This section lists the official vPars documents. All documents, including additional topic-specific
papers related to using vPars, are available on the BSC website at:
www.hp.com/go/hpux-vpars-docs
• HP-UX Virtual Partitions Release Notes (this document)
This document describes what is new as well as known problems for a specific vPars release.
• HP-UX Virtual Partitions Ordering and Configuration Guide
This document contains information on licensing and version requirements for the vPars product
and related HP-UX products, such as HP-UX 11i Operating Environments (OEs), for servers
using vPars. The document also discusses the supported hardware, firmware, I/O cards and
devices, and other HP-UX products used with vPars. It also provides information about vPars
configurations that are supported within a mixed vPars environment.
• HP-UX Virtual Partitions Administrator Guide
This guide describes the basic concepts, and common tasks you can perform using the vPars
product.
• Topic Specific Papers:
Booting, Installing, Recovery, and Sharing in a vPars Environment from
DVD/CDROM/TAPE/Network
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◦ Configuring and Migrating Memory on vPars
◦ CPU Configuration Guidelines for vPars
◦ Guidelines for Configuring Virtual Partitions on Cellular Platforms
◦ Introducing HP-UX 11i Virtual Partitions
◦ LVM/VxVM and vPars sx2000 Upgrade
◦ Mixed OS (HP-UX 11i v2/v3) Considerations in vPars A.05.xx
◦ Securing Virtual Partitions with HP-UX Role-Based Access Control
◦ Top Ten Tips for Using Virtual Partitions
◦ Using Golden Images with Virtual Partitions
◦ Kernel Memory Allocation
◦ LPMC and resulting CPU States
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