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Installing and Managing HP-UX Virtual Partitions (vPars) > Chapter 5 Monitor and Shell CommandsSetting and Booting a Partition Using Primary and Alternate Boot Paths |
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You can set the primary and alternate boot paths of a virtual partition by using the HP-UX setboot command or the vPars BOOT and ALTBOOT attributes. For more information on how setboot works on a vPars computer, see “System-wide Stable Storage and Setboot”. For more information on the I/O attributes, see vparresources(5) manpage. In the examples below, suppose you want the virtual partition winona2 to have its primary boot disk at 0/8/0/0.5.0 and its alternate boot path at 0/8/0/0.2.0. Using setbootBecause setboot affects only the virtual partition from which you execute the command, execute these commands from winona2.
Using vparcreateWithin the vparcreate command, you can specify the primary or alternate boot paths with the BOOT and ALTBOOT attributes:
Using vparmodifyIf the partitions are created already, you can specify the primary or alternate boot paths with the BOOT and ALTBOOT attributes within the vparmodify command:
To boot winona2 using the primary path:
However, because the primary boot path is the default, you can omit the -Bportion:
To boot winona2 using the alternate path:
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