Expert Recovery

When you are performing Expert Recovery, you need to remember the following:

You can no longer read from or write to system-wide stable storage using setboot. See “System-wide Stable Storage and Setboot”.
mkboot modifies the LIF area, but vPars does not use the LIF area to boot a virtual partition. See “mkboot and LIF files” and “Simulating the AUTO File on a Virtual Partition”.
When you need to use boot options (for example, -is for single-user mode or -lmfor LVM maintenance mode), please read the sections “Booting a Virtual Partition into Single-User Mode” and “Using Other Boot Options”.
The HP-UX shell commands shutdown and reboot apply to the OS instance of a virtual partition and do not shutdown or reboot the monitor.
There is no way to halt the hard partition from the MON> prompt. See “Shutting Down or Rebooting the Hard Partition (rebooting the vPars monitor)”.

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