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bo[ot]|pri[mary]

(case-insensitive). This is the default if the

-B option is omitted. vparboot

attempts to boot vp_name from the device previously conﬁgured with the

BOOT attribute. It is an error if no device has been so conﬁgured.

alt[ernate|boot]

(case-insensitive).

vparboot attempts to boot vp_name from the device pre-

viously conﬁgured with the

ALTBOOT attribute. It is an error if no device has

been so conﬁgured.

tape

(case-insensitive). On PA-RISC platforms

vparboot attempts to boot

vp_name from a device previously conﬁgured with the

TAPE attribute. It is

an error if no device has been so conﬁgured. On Itanium(R)-based platforms,

lists all the tape devices assigned to the partition. The user will then be

prompted to select the tape device from which to boot the partition. This will

restore the contents archived using

make_tape_recovery

from tape

. All

the contents on the target disk will be lost.

Boot From Hardware Path:

Any other string is assumed to be the hardware path to the desired boot device

(for example, 10/6.0).

vparboot does not check any part of such a

speciﬁcation. If it is not a proper path, the path does not exist, the virtual par-

tition does not own the device at that path, or there is no bootable device at

that path, the command either fails with an error, or the boot attempt fails

with no error indication.

Boot actions: If the boot from primary path fails, then the combination of

auto-

boot and autosearch attributes decides the boot action to be taken. Refer to the

vparcreate (1M) or vparmodify (1M) manpage for details.

-I ignite_kernel (PA-RISC platforms only) Speciﬁes a path to a cold-install kernel such as

/opt/ignite/boot/WINSTALL

. This form of the command is used to cold-

install an instance of HP-UX on a virtual partition. Most often, this is done on a

newly-created virtual partition, one that has a completely unwritten disk. How-

ever, it can be used to cold-install HP-UX over an existing instance.

ignite_kernel can reside either on the local virtual partition (the one on which

vparboot is run) or on any other networked system or virtual partition accessible

from that partition. The syntax for ignite_kernel is:

[Server name or IP addr,]cold-install_kernel

If cold-install_kernel begins with a slash, "/", you are specifying an absolute path

and

vparboot looks for it at that location. With Ignite-UX revisions prior to

C.6.0, if cold-install_kernel does not begin with "/", the default path

/opt/ignite/boot/ is prepended to cold-install_kernel.

With Ignite-UX revision C.6.0 or later, there is no cold-install_kernel at the default

path

/opt/ignite/boot. Hence it is required to specify an absolute path, such

as /opt/ignite/boot/Rel_B.11.11/WINSTALL

If the Server name or IP address, is not speciﬁed,

vparboot loads the cold-install

kernel from the ﬁle space of the local virtual partition. Otherwise the command

loads it from the ﬁle space of the speciﬁed server. The comma is a required part of

the server name syntax.

-I (Itanium-based platforms only) Arguments are optional. Once the command exits,

you must enter Control-A in a console window until you reach the virtual console

for vp_name. There you are presented with one or more MAC addresses of I/O con-

trollers assigned to vp_name . Select the appropriate address to load the cold-install

kernel.

If no MAC address can be identiﬁed, or if the selected MAC address fails to load the

cold-install kernel, you must identify the source of the problem, then retry the

vparboot command.

-d name Speciﬁes the DB-Proﬁle name from which user speciﬁed Direct boot settings are

read from the database

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