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

Monitor and Shell Commands
Using Primary and Alternate Boot Paths
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Booting Using the Primary or Alternate Boot Paths
To boot winona2 using the primary path:
winona1# vparboot -p winona2 -B pri
However, because the primary boot path is the default, you can omit the -B portion:
winona1# vparboot -p winona2
To boot winona2 using the alternate path:
winona2# vparboot -p winona2 -B alt
NOTE
• Setting a path using vparmodify requires the target virtual partition to be down; setboot
does not. However, setboot can change only the path(s) of the virtual partition from which
the setboot command is run (in other words, the local virtual partition).
• You cannot specify pri or alt at the Monitor prompt. However, because the primary boot
path is the default, you can boot winona2 using the primary path using the following
command:
MON> vparload -p winona2
If you want to boot winona2 using the alternate boot path, you can specify the hardware
address for the alternate boot path. For example, to boot the virtual partition winona2
using the disk at 0/8/0/0.2.0:
MON> vparload -p winona2 -B 0.8.0.0.2.0