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Virtual Partitions (vPars) Management on nPartitions
Configuring vPar Autoboot
HP System Partitions Guide: Administration for nPartitions, rev 5.1 496
Configuring vPar Autoboot
This section describes how you can configure an nPartition to
automatically boot the Virtual Partitions Monitor and to also boot all
vPars that have autoboot configured.
For details on automatically booting HP-UX in non-vPars mode on an
nPartition, refer to the chapter Booting and Resetting nPartitions on
page 197.
As the following procedure describes, setting up the vPars autoboot
process involves first configuring the nPartition’s boot device paths and
path flags to boot the device where the current vPars database resides,
then configuring that boot device’s AUTO file to specify that the vPars
monitor be loaded with the -a option, and finally configuring the vPars
that you want load automatically to have their boot attribute set to auto.
vPar Management: Configuring vPar Boot Settings
This procedure configures an nPartition to autoboot the vPars monitor
(MON> prompt) and also automatically load/boot the Virtual Partitions
that have autoboot configured.
Step 1. From the nPartition’s BCH interface, configure the nPartition to
automatically boot the device where the current vPars database and
vPars monitor resides.
First configure one of the nPartition’s boot path variables (PRI, HAA, or
ALT) to reference the device where the current vPars database
(/stand/vpdb) resides.
Then configure the nPartition’s path flags to boot the chosen device path.
Refer to the chapter Booting and Resetting nPartitions on page 197 for
details on nPartition autoboot, including device path and path flag
configuration.
Step 2. Boot HP-UX in non-vPars mode from the device you configured in the
previous step.
From the BCH interface, issue the BOOT command and specify the boot
path variable you set in the previous step. For example: BOOT HAA to boot
the HAA device path.
Step 3. Login to HP-UX and configure the chosen boot device’s AUTO file.