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

Monitor and Shell Commands

Autobooting the Monitor and All Virtual Partitions

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Autobooting the Monitor and All Virtual

Partitions

You can setup the monitor and all virtual partitions to boot

automatically at power up. To do this, make sure the following four

conditions are met:

1. The hard partition’s primary and alternate boot paths point to the

boot disks of different virtual partitions.

For example, to set the primary and alternate boot paths:

BCH> pa pri 0/0/2/0.6.0

BCH> pa alt 0/8/0/0.5.0

2. The autoboot ﬂag in stable storage is set to ON.

To set the autoboot ﬂag to ON:

BCH> au on

3. The contents of the AUTO ﬁles of the primary and alternate boot disks

contain "hpux /stand/vpmon -a". (The -aoption of /stand/vpmon

boots all the virtual partitions that have the autoboot ﬂag set.)

To set the contents of the AUTO ﬁle on the LIF, log into the virtual

partitions that own the primary and alternate boot disks,

respectively, and execute the mkboot -a command:

For example, after logging into winona1 which owns the primary

boot disk at 0/0/2/0.6.0, execute:

winona1# mkboot -a "hpux /stand/vpmon -a"

/dev/rdsk/c2t6d0

and after logging into winona2 which owns the alternate boot disk at

0/8/0/0.5.0, execute:

winona2# mkboot -a "hpux /stand/vpmon -a"

/dev/rdsk/c1t5d0

4. The autoboot ﬂag of all the virtual partitions is set to AUTO.

AUTO is the default. However, if you need to reset the autoboot ﬂag to

AUTO: