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Virtual Partitions (vPars) Management on nPartitions
Booting HP-UX on vPars
HP System Partitions Guide: Administration for nPartitions, rev 5.1 487
•Ifvparstatus reports The current virtual partition is...
then the nPartition is running one or more vPars.
NOTE This note applies only when an nPartition is running one or more
vPars.
Because at least one vPar already has loaded/booted HP-UX on the
nPartition, you should check whether the vPar you wish to boot
already is loaded, or whether the vPar can be loaded without
rebooting HP-UX.
From HP-UX running on the vPar, enter the vparstatus command.
If the vPar you wish to load/boot is not listed in the vparstatus
output, you may need to reboot the nPartition and its vPars and you
can proceed with the rest of this step and procedure.
If the vPar you wish to load/boot is listed, then check its boot state. If
the vPar is “Up” then it already has loaded/booted HP-UX. If the
vPar is “Down” then you can load/boot it using the vparboot
command (see the vparboot (1M) manpage). In either of these two
cases you can skip the rest of this procedure.
If you are certain that you need to reboot the nPartition and its
vPars, proceed with the rest of this step.
To access BCH, shut down HP-UX on all vPars and reset the vPar.
See the procedure Rebooting or Shutting Down vPars on page 492 for
complete details on shutting down HP-UX on all vPars and returning
to the BCH interface. You must shut down and halt (shutdown -h)
HP-UX in each vPar, and then at the vPars monitor’s MON> prompt
enter the reboot command to reset the nPartition. When the
nPartition resets all active cells in the nPartition are reset; after the
cells reset you should interrupt the nPartition’s autoboot process if
needed and then access the BCH interface.
Once you have access to the BCH interface proceed with the next step.
Step 4. From the BCH interface enter the BOOT device command, where device
is the disk where the desired vPars configuration database (the
/stand/vpdb file) resides.