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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and its nPartition showed the nPartition’s alternate path to be
2/0/14/0/0.6.0:
winona2# parstatus -p0 -V
[Partition]
Partition Number : 0
Partition Name : npar0
Status : active
IP address : 0.0.0.0
PrimaryBoot Path : 0/0/6/0/0.5.0
Alternate Boot Path : 2/0/14/0/0.6.0
HA Alternate Boot Path : 0/0/6/0/0.5.0
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Changing the Virtual Partition’s Path (vPars Partition Database)
To change winona1’s alternate boot path to the boot disk at
0/0/6/0/0.4.0, run the command:
winona2# vparmodify -p winona1 -a io:0.0.6.0.0.4.0:ALTBOOT
vparstatus now shows:
winona2# vparstatus -p winona1 -v
[Virtual Partition Details]
Name: winona1
State: Down
Attributes: Dynamic,Autoboot
Kernel Path: /stand/vmunix
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[IO Details]
0.0.6
0.0.6.0.0.5
0.0.0
0.0.4
0.0.2
0.0.6.0.0.4.0 ALTBOOT
0.0.6.0.0.5.0 BOOT
0.0.6.0.0.6.0
but note that the nPartition’s alternate path has not changed:
# parstatus -p0 -V
[Partition]
Partition Number : 0
Partition Name : npar0
Status : active
IP address : 0.0.0.0