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Procedures for Booting and Resetting nPartitions
Configuring Boot Paths and Boot Actions
HP System Partitions Guide: Administration for nPartitions—rp7410
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You can modify the boot paths for any partition from any other partition
in the complex when using the parmodify command.
However, when using the setboot command to modify the PRI and ALT
paths or the PRI boot action, you can modify only the local partition’s
settings.
Step 3. Configure boot path settings using the parmodify -p # ... command.
Use the following commands to set the boot path variables for a specified
partition number (-p # ):
• PRI path—parmodify -p # -b PRI where PRI is the hardware
path.
• HAA path—parmodify -p # -s HAA where HAA is the hardware
path.
• ALT path—parmodify -p # -t ALT where ALT is the hardware
path.
If using the setboot command to set boot paths for the local nPartition,
you can specify setboot -p PRI or setboot -a ALT but cannot set the
HAA path variable.
You can list a partition’s current boot path settings by issuing the
parstatus -V -p # | grep Path command and specifying the partition
number (-p # ). The setboot command with no arguments lists the PRI
and ALT settings for the local partition as well as the local partition’s
PRI path flags (boot actions).
For example, to set the PRI boot path to 0/0/4/0/0.8.0 and the HAA boot
path to 0/0/4/0/0.9.0 for partition number 0, issue the parmodify -p0
-b 0/0/4/0/0.8.0 -s 0/0/4/0/0.9.0 command, as shown below.
Step 4. As needed, configure the PRI boot action for the local nPartition by using
the setboot -b Autoboot -s Autosearch command.
The setboot command supports the following options for setting local
partition boot actions:
# parmodify -p0 -b 0/0/4/0/0.8.0 -s 0/0/4/0/0.9.0
Command succeeded.
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