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

Managing Virtual Partitions

Expert Recovery

Chapter 362

Expert Recovery

When you are performing Expert Recovery, you need to remember the

following:

• You can no longer read from or write to system-wide stable storage

using setboot. See “System-wide Stable Storage and Setboot” on

page 58.

• mkboot modiﬁes the LIF area, but vPars does not use the LIF area to

boot a virtual partition. See “mkboot and LIF ﬁles” on page 29 and

“Simulating the AUTO File on a Virtual Partition” on page 138.

• When you need to use boot options (for example, -is for single-user

mode or -lmfor LVM maintenance mode), please read the sections

“Booting a Virtual Partition into Single-User Mode” on page 134 and

“Using Other Boot Options” on page 136.

• The HP-UX shell commands shutdown and reboot apply to the OS

instance of a virtual partition and do not shutdown or reboot the

monitor.

• There is no way to halt the hard partition from the MON> prompt.

See “Shutting Down or Rebooting the Hard Partition (rebooting the

vPars monitor)” on page 120.