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

Monitor and Shell Commands
Using Other Boot Options
Chapter 5 137
Overriding Quorum
In LVM, when the root disk is mirrored, the server can only activate the
root volume group, which contains the OS instance, when the majority of
the physical volumes in a root volume group are present at boot time.
This is called establishing a quorum. Sometimes, you may want to boot
an OS instance regardless of whether a quorum is established. You can
override the quorum requirement by using the -lq option. For more
information on quorums, see the book "Managing Systems and
Workgroups."
On a non-vPars server, you would boot overriding quorum using:
ISL> hpux -lq
On a vPars server, you can execute either of the following:
From MON> From the monitor prompt, to boot winona2 overriding the quorum
requirement:
MON> vparload -p winona2 -o "-lq"
From shell prompt From the running virtual partition winona1, to boot winona2 overriding
the quorum requirement:
winona1# vparboot -p winona2 -o "-lq"
NOTE Specifying the boot options from the command line only affects the
current boot. On a non-vPars server, to have a server permanently boot
with the -lq option, you would put "hpux -lq" in the LIF AUTO file. On a
vPars server, to have a partition boot with the -lq option, you would
simulate the AUTO file usage by entering the -lq option into the partition
database. See “Simulating the AUTO File on a Virtual Partition” on
page 138.