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

• If you are at the EFI shell prompt, use the following EFI utility to switch to either nPars or
vPars mode:
Shell:> fsN:
fsN:> 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 the 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 command to
reset the system so it boots into nPars mode.
NOTE: parconfig does not support switching to vPars mode. In other words, you can
use parconfig to set the mode to nPars, but you cannot use parconfig to set the mode
to vPars.
Known Problems Fixed in This Version
This section lists the known problems fixed in vPars A.04.04. For detailed information, see the
HP ITRC at: http://itrc.hp.com
• JAGaf93315 vpdb is changed when vPars boots with missing hardware
• JAGaf83744 vPars/IPF: Need a command which can update the bootpath for the vPars
monitor online. A firmware change is required to fix this defect. See the HP-UX Virtual
Partitions Ordering and Configuration Guide for minimum firmware requirement for your
configuration.
• JAGag24813 Defect: vpard dies because of file descriptor leak in getDBExtData()
• JAGag08408 First vparcreate runs for more than 25 minutes
• JAGag10598 Serviceguard (SG) TOC following firmware (FW) hang during console
output
• JAGag23325 vPars: ia64_corehw over-cycling CPU on all vPars within the same nPar
• JAGaf96553 Message under vPars: read_ss_nvm: Cannot validate NVM --2
• JAGag10038 vparinit may corrupt /usr/conf/gen/mapfile
• JAGaf68955 vPars console hangs due to race condition with asio0 driver
Known Problems Fixed in This Version 7