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

Monitor and Shell Commands
Modes: Switching between nPars and vPars Modes (Integrity only)
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1. First, set the mode:
Shell> parconfig nPars -n
2. Then, you can reboot the nPartition from either the EFI shell using the reset option:
Shell> parconfig reset
Differences Between vparconfig and parconfig
Usage Scenarios
• If you are running HP-UX in nPars mode (standalone), use the following vPars command to switch to
vPars mode:
OS-Prompt> vparenv -m vPars /* sets the mode for the next nPartition reboot */
OS-Prompt> reboot /* to reboot the system into vPars mode */
• If you are at the Monitor prompt, use the following Monitor command to switch to nPars mode:
MON> reboot nPars /* sets the mode and reboots the system */
• If you are at EFI shell prompt, use the following EFI utility to switch to either nPars or vPars mode:
Shell:> fs N :
fs N :> vparconfig reboot nPars|vPars
Since vparconfig is not a built-in EFI shell command, you must go to the disk to execute vparconfig.
For example, to switch to vPars mode:
Shell:> fs0: /* go to the EFI partition of the disk */
fs0:> vparconfig reboot vPars /* sets the mode and reboots the system */
Note: vparconfig is an EFI utility which gets installed in the EFI partition during the installation of the
vPars product.
• If you are at EFI shell prompt in vPars mode and you do not have vPars installed on any of your disks,
you can use the built-in EFI command parconfig to switch to nPars mode:
Shell:> parconfig nPars
Shell:> parconfig reset
Note: Remember to issue a parconfig reset after setting the mode. parconfig nPars only sets the
mode to nPars. You must issue the parconfig reset to reset the system so that it boots into nPars
mode.
Table 5-1 vparconfig versus parconfig
vparconfig parconfig
EFI shell: vparconfig is not a built-in EFI shell
command, so you must execute
vparconfig from the disk.
parconfig is a built-in EFI shell
command, so you can execute
parconfig from the EFI shell.
syntax: vparconfig reboot mode parconfig mode
nPartition reboot: vparconfig automatically reboots the
nPartition after you set the mode.
parconfig does not automatically
reboot the nPartition. You must
manually reboot the nPartition.