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Virtual Partitions (vPars) Management on nPartitions

Conﬁguring vPar Autoboot

HP System Partitions Guide: Administration for nPartitions, rev 5.1

497

After HP-UX has booted in non-vPars mode on the nPartition, login as

root, use the lvdisplay command to list device ﬁle for the boot device,

and then use the mkboot command to conﬁgure the boot device’s AUTO

ﬁle. You also can use the lifcp command to display the contents of the

AUTO ﬁle.

For example, the following mkboot command sets the AUTO ﬁle for the

/dev/dsk/c1t5d0 device, and the lifcp command displays the contents

of the device’s AUTO ﬁle.

# mkboot -a "hpux boot /stand/vpmon -a" /dev/dsk/c1t5d0

# lifcp /dev/dsk/c1t5d0:AUTO -

hpux boot /stand/vpmon -a

The vpmon -a option speciﬁes to automatically load/boot all vPars that

have autoboot conﬁgured when the vPars monitor is loaded.

Also see the example Autoboot Conﬁguration Example for Virtual

Partitions (vPars) on page 498 for more example.

Step 4. From HP-UX check all vPar boot attributes and reconﬁgure any boot

attributes to establish the vPars autoboot conﬁguration you desire.

Use the vparstatus command to list details about all vPars, including

boot attributes. Note that when you issue this command when HP-UX is

booted in non-vPars mode, the command presents conﬁguration info

based on the /stand/vpdb vPars database.

Then as needed use the vparmodify command to reconﬁgure any boot

attributes. For example, the following command sets the vPar named

“Mesh” to automatically load/boot HP-UX when possible.

# vparmodify -p Mesh -B auto

Each vPar that you want to boot automatically must have its boot

attribute set to auto.

Step 5. Reboot the nPartition, and as desired observe its boot progress from the

nPartition’s Virtual Front Panel or its console.

The result of this nPartition reboot is to automatically load/boot the

vPars that you have conﬁgured for autoboot.

Issue the shutdown -r command to shut down HP-UX and reboot the

nPartition.