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

Managing Virtual Partitions
System-wide Stable Storage and Setboot
Chapter 358
System-wide Stable Storage and Setboot
On a vPars hard partition, the setboot command does not read from or
write to stable storage. Instead, the setboot command reads from and
writes to the vPars partition database, affecting only the entries of the
virtual partition from which the setboot command was run.
For example, if you are logged into winona2 and execute the command:
winona2# setboot -b on
this would set the autoboot attribute to AUTO for the virtual partition
winona2.
The actions of setboot on a vPars hard partition are:
NOTE To modify stable storage, you must go to the BCH (Boot Console
Handler).
setboot
option
vPars effect
-p changes the primary boot path of the virtual
partition
-a changes the alternateboot path of the virtual
partition
-s no effect
-b sets the autoboot attribute of the virtual
partition
no options displays the primary boot path, alternate
boot path, and autoboot attribute of the
virtual partition