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Virtual Partitions (vPars) Management on nPartitions
Configuring vPar Autoboot
HP System Partitions Guide: Administration for nPartitions, rev 5.1 500
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This example nPartition now is configured so that when the nPartition
reboots it will automatically boot from a device that will automatically
load a vPars monitor, which then will automatically load/boot the vPar
named “Mesh”.
In this example’s next step the user reboots the nPartition by issuing the
shutdown -r command.
# shutdown -r
SHUTDOWN PROGRAM
06/26/02 17:57:23 CDT
Waiting a grace period of 60 seconds for users to logout.
Do not turn off the power or press reset during this time.
Broadcast Message from root (console) Wed Jun 26 17:58:23...
SYSTEM BEING BROUGHT DOWN NOW ! ! !
Do you want to continue? (You must respond with ’y’ or ’n’.): y
/sbin/auto_parms: DHCP access is disabled (see /etc/auto_parms.log)
System shutdown in progress
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Stopping OpC agent processes (opcagt). .................... OK
Stop CDE login server ..................................... OK
Because the nPartition is booted in non-vPars mode, the shutdown -r
command shuts down HP-UX and resets the nPartition’s active cells.
After the cells boot and the nPartition reaches its BCH interface, the
autoboot process begins.
The following example output shows that the nPartition automatically
boots the primary (PRI) boot device path, whose AUTO file is configured
to load the vPars monitor and automatically load/boot the vPars whose
boot attribute is auto.
The end result of this example nPartition shutdown-and-reboot is that
the nPartition has loaded/booted the Virtual Partition named “Mesh”.