Installing and Managing HP-UX Virtual Partitions (includes A.04.01)

Monitor and Shell Commands
Boot||Shut: Using Primary and Alternate Boot Paths
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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