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

Monitor and Shell Commands

Performing nPartition Operations

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partition monitor is rebooted.

Shutdown at 16:09 (in 0 minutes)

At this point, the nPartition is in the Boot-Is-Blocked (BIB) state.

The virtual partition winona1 remains down until all the virtual

partitions have been shutdown and the monitor rebooted.

Note also that once the nPartition is in the BIB state, vparstatus

shows the following message:

Note: A profile change is pending. The hard partition must be

rebooted to complete it.

3. Shutdown the other virtual partitions. For example:

winona2# vparstatus

winona2# shutdown -r

Transition to run-level0 is complete.

Executing "/sbin/reboot-R ".

Note: If this is a partitionable system, the requested

reconfiguration will not take place until all the virtual

partitions on this hard partition are shut down and the virtual

partition monitor is rebooted.

Shutdown at 16:19 (in 0 minutes)

At this point, all virtual partitions have been shut down. The

monitor will reboot automatically. On the console, we would see the

following message:

All partitions have halted. System will now reboot for

reconfiguration.

and the beginning of the boot process for the nPartition:

Firmware Version 35.3

Duplex Console IO Dependent Code (IODC)revision 1

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