Managing Superdome Complexes: A Guide for HP-UX System Administrators

Conﬁguring and Managing Superdome Partitions

Procedures for Managing Partitions

Chapter 4 177

Modifying Partitions’ Boot Paths

Each HP Superdome partition has its own boot path settings that specify

the primary (PRI), alternate (ALT), and high-availability alternate

(HAA) boot devices. See Chapter 5 for details on boot paths and

procedures for booting and rebooting partitions.

You can modify boot path settings for the local partition and remote

partitions within the same Superdome complex.

BCH This procedure modiﬁes boot path variables using the BCH menu.

Step 1. Access the Boot Console Handler (BCH) main menu for the partition.

Step 2. Use the PA command to list current PRI, HAA, and ALT settings.

Enter PA with no arguments to list all paths.

Step 3. Specify PA with arguments to set the boot path you desire to modify.

For example, PA PRI 4/0/1/0/0.6 sets the PRI boot path variable to

4/0/1/0/0.6.

HP-UX Commands This procedure modiﬁes a partition’s boot path variables using the

parmodify HP-UX command.

Step 1. Issue the parstatus -Vp# command to list details, including boot paths,

for the partition.

Step 2. If the partition is local, or if it is an inactive remote partition, use the

parmodify command to modify the desired boot path.

Issue parmodify -p# -bpri to modify the PRI boot path.

Use the parmodify -s option for the HAA path, and -t for the ALT path.

See “parmodify Command” on page 211 for details.

You can perform this task using the BCH interface or

HP-UX commands.

• “BCH” on page 177

• “HP-UX Commands” on page 177