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

Monitor and Shell Commands
Setting and Booting a Virtual Partition Using Primary and Alternate Boot Paths
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winona1# vparcreate -p winona2 -a io:0/8/0/0.5.0:BOOT
-a io:0/8/0/0.2.0:ALTBOOT
Using vparmodify If the virtual partitions are created already, you can specify the primary
or alternate boot paths with the BOOT and ALTBOOT attributes within the
vparmodify command:
To set the primary boot path:
winona1# vparmodify -p winona2 -a io:0/8/0/0.5.0:BOOT
To set the alternate boot path:
winona1# vparmodify -p winona2 -a
io:0/8/0/0.2.0:ALTBOOT
Or to set the primary and alternate boots paths on the same
command line:
winona1# vparmodify -p winona2 -a io:0/8/0/0.5.0:BOOT
-a io:0/8/0/0.2.0:ALTBOOT
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
-Bportion:
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).