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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• You cannot specify pri or alt at the monitor prompt. However,
because the primary boot path is the default, you can boot winona2
using the primary path using the following command:
MON> vparload -p winona2
If you want to boot winona2 using the alternate boot path, you can
specify the hardware address for the alternate boot path. For
example, to boot the virtual partition winona2 using the disk at
0/8/0/0.2.0:
MON> vparload -p winona2 -B 0/8/0/0.2.0
Using Primary and Alternate Paths with nPartitions
The vPars database and the nPartition complex profile are entirely
separate. Therefore, a change in the vPars database does not change any
complex profile data.
A change in the primary or alternate paths in the vPars database does
not change the primary or alternate paths in the complex profile. To
change the primary or alternate paths for both a virtual partition and its
nPartition, you must change the paths for each separately.
Example Original Status
Suppose a vparstatus output of winona1 showed the alternate boot path
to be 0/0/6/0/0.6.0 (irrelevant output omitted):
winona2# vparstatus -p winona1 -v
[Virtual Partition Details]
Name: winona1
State: Down
Attributes: Dynamic,Autoboot
.
.
.
[IO Details]
0.0.6
0.0.6.0.0.5
0.0.0
0.0.4
0.0.2
0.0.6.0.0.5.0 BOOT
0.0.6.0.0.6.0 ALTBOOT