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

Monitor and Shell Commands
Using Other Boot Options
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Using Other Boot Options
In the same way you can boot a virtual partition into single-user mode
(see “Booting a Virtual Partition into Single-User Mode” on page 134),
you can boot a partition using other boot options. The general syntax is:
From MON> MON> vparload -p <target_partition> <boot_options>
or
From shell prompt <active_partition># vparboot -p <target_partition> -o
"<boot_options>"
Two LVM-based examples, maintenance mode and overriding quorum,
are shown below. For more information on all the boot options, see the
manpage hpux (1M).
Maintenance Mode
When troubleshooting LVM, you may need to enter into maintenance
mode using the -lm option. For more information on maintenance mode,
see the book “Managing Systems and Workgroups.”
On a non-vPars server, you would boot the server into maintenance mode
by executing the following:
ISL> hpux -lm
On a vPars server, you specify the same -lm option but as an argument to
either the monitor vparload command or as a -o option to the shell
vparboot command.
For example, if the partition winona2 is down, to boot winona2 into
maintenance mode:
From MON> From the monitor prompt:
MON> vparload -p winona2 -o "-lm"
From shell prompt From the running partition winona1:
winona1# vparboot -p winona2 -o "-lm"