HP-UX Virtual Partitions Release Notes (A.04.04)

Description A virtual partition does not boot from its mirror root disk because there is no

longer a valid EFI to hardware path mapping in the vPars database.

Symptoms After creating a mirror root disk, the virtual partition fails to boot from this

disk. You may see messages similar to the following:

Load of 1/0/8/1/0.22.31.0.0.0.1 failed: Not Found

Workaround After the mirror is created, use the vparefiutil -u command to add the

new hardware path to EFI path mapping to the vPars database.

Note that on Integrity systems running vPars, whenever the EFI path of a boot disk changes

(for example, if an OS is re-installed on the disk), the new hardware to EFI path mapping

has to be updated in the vPars database. This can be done by running the vparefiutil

-u command. For more information on EFI and vPars, see the “EFI and Integrity Notes”

section in the HP-UX Virtual Partitions Administrator’s Guide.

Related Information

This section lists the official vPars documents. All documents, including additional topic-specific

papers related to using vPars, are available at the HP Documentation web site at:

http://docs.hp.com/en/oshpux11iv2.html#Virtual%20Partitions

• HP-UX Virtual Partitions Release Notes (this document)

This describes what’s new as well as known problems for a specific vPars release.

• HP-UX Virtual Partitions Administrator’s Guide

This is the vPars system administrator's guide that describes the basic concepts and common

tasks for the vPars product.

• HP-UX Virtual Partitions Ordering and Configuration Guide

This document contains information on licensing and version requirements for the vPars

product and related HP-UX products, such as HP-UX 11i Operating Environments (OEs),

for servers using vPars. The document also contains the information on supported hardware,

firmware, I/O cards and devices, and other HP-UX products used with vPars.

• Topic Specific Papers:

— Securing Virtual Partitions with HP-UX Role-Based Access Control

— Using Golden Images with Virtual Partitions

— Kernel Memory Allocation

— LPMC and resulting CPU States

— LVM & vPars IO Backplane Upgrade

— LVM/VxVM and vPars sx2000 Upgrade

— Resizing vPars automatically with HP-UX Workload Manager

— Booting, Installing, Recovery, and Sharing in a vPars Environment from

DVD/CDROM/TAPE/Network

Ordering vPars

Product Numbers vPars A.04.01 and later have different product numbers than vPars A.03.xx

and earlier:

T1335CC vPars A.05.xx for HP-UX 11i v3

T1335BC vPars A.04.xx for HP-UX 11i v2

T1335AC vPars A.03.xx for HP-UX 11i v1

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