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

Chapter 9
nPartition Operations
Reconfiguring the nPartition
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From vPars mode:
1. Perform the changes as you would in a non-vPars environment. For example, if we want to add cell 6 to
partition 0 for the next boot of the vPars Monitor:
keira1# parmodify -p0 -a 6:base:y:ri
In order to activate any cell that has been newly added,reboot the partition with the -R option.
Command succeeded.
2. Perform a Reboot-for-Reconfig (RFR) from a virtual partition. For example,
keira1# vparstatus
keira1# shutdown -R -H
At this point, the nPartition is in the Boot-Is-Blocked (BIB) state. Note that once the nPartition is in the
BIB state, vparstatus shows the following message in the remaining virtual partitions:
Note: A profile change is pending. The hard partition must be rebooted to complete it.
3. Shutdown all the other virtual partitions. For example, on keira2:
keira2# shutdown -h
...
Transition to run-level0 is complete.
Executing "/sbin/reboot-R ".
Note: If this is a partitionable system, the requested reconfiguration will not take place until
all the virtual partitions on this hard partition are shut down and the virtual partition Monitor
is rebooted.
Shutdown at 16:19 (in 0 minutes)
This should bring you to the Monitor prompt (MON>)
4. From the Monitor prompt, boot the nPartition into nPars mode:
MON> reboot nPars
Allow the nPartition to boot into nPars mode. If autoboot is not setup, perform the boot into nPars mode
manually when the system comes up:
Shell> fsN:
fsN:\> efi\hpux\hpux /stand/vmunix
5. Once the system boots into nPars mode, the OS kernel automatically will write the correct CPU mapping
data to EFI. Now you can reboot the nPartition back into vPars mode and reboot the Monitor.
keira# vparenv -m vPars
keira# shutdown -r
...
fs0:\EFI\HPUX> boot vpmon
...
Reconfiguring an nPartition (PA-RISC)
For the following example, the virtual partitions keira1 and keira2 exist within the nPartition 0. Only
relevant output is shown.
1. Perform the changes as you would in a non-vPars environment. For example, if we want to add cell 6 to
partition 0:
keira1# parmodify -p0 -a 6:base:y:ri