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

Installing, Updating, or Removing vPars
Setting Up the Ignite-UX Server
Chapter 4
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3. Enter the keyword vPars
4. You will see Ignite-UX & vPars Cookbook
Ignite-UX, the LAN, the LAN card, and vparboot -I
NOTE Using vparboot -p target_partition -I
On both PA-RISC and Integrity, before booting a virtual partition for installation (in other
words, using vparboot -p target_partition -I...), please be sure that you have specified
a boot disk using the BOOT attribute (io:boot_device:BOOT)for the virtual partition. This is
performed during either the initial vparcreate or subsequent vparmodify commands when
configuring the target virtual partition.
If you have not specified a boot disk, you will not see the BOOT attribute in the vparstatus -v
output for the target virtual partition:
[IO Details]
0.1
0.8
0.3
If you have, you will see the BOOT attribute in the vparstatus -v output:
[IO Details]
0.1
0.8
0.3
0.8.0.0.8.0.110.0.0.0 BOOT
PA-RISC:
The following is the sequence of events when a vparboot -I is issued from an existing virtual partition to
boot a target virtual partition:
1. the virtual partition from which the vparboot command is run uses tftp to obtain WINSTALL and
WINSTALLFS. Note that the network interface card of the target virtual partition (the virtual partition
you are attempting to boot) is not used in this step. Neither is bootp used.
2. WINSTALL and WINSTALLFS are transferred to the vPars Monitor.
3. the Monitor places them into the memory of the target virtual partition.
4. the target virtual partition uses WINSTALL and WINSTALLFS to boot and contacts the Ignite-UX
server for the remainder of the installation.
Therefore, you should ensure the following:
• the network interface card that is owned by the virtual partition from which the vparboot command is
issued allows tftp between the Ignite-UX server and this network interface.
You can check the tftp connection by verifying the following works:
vpar1# tftp <ignite-ux_server>
tftp> get /opt/ignite/boot/WINSTALL
Received 20495138 bytes in 9.9 seconds