Installing and Managing HP-UX Virtual Partitions (A.02.01)

Monitor and Shell Commands
Booting a Virtual Partition
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Booting a Virtual Partition
To boot a single virtual partition, use either the monitor command
vparload or the shell command vparboot.
From ISL> To boot the existing virtual partition winona1 from ISL:
ISL> hpux /stand/vpmon vparload -p winona1
From MON> To boot virtual partition winona1 from the monitor:
MON> vparload -p winona1
From shell prompt To boot virtual partition winona2 from another virtual partition
winona1:
winona1# vparboot -p winona2
NOTE
• On nPartition-able servers, memory assigned to a virtual partition is
scrubbed as part of the boot process. This will increase boot times,
propotional to the amount of memory assigned the virtual partition.
Further, if the virtual partition that is being booted owns the
hardware console port, there will be a pause in the console output.
For more information, see “Switchover Pause with Shutting Down”
on page 41.
• When there is a pending reboot for reconfiguration for the involved
nPartition, the target virtual partition of the vparload or vparboot
commands will not be booted until all the virtual partitions have
been shutdown and the vPars monitor rebooted. For more
information see “Shutting Down or Rebooting the Hard Partition
(rebooting the vPars monitor)” on page 120.