HP-UX Virtual Partitions Administrator Guide (includes A.05.08) (5900-1312, March 2011)

• make_tape_recovery within a vPars-environment in conjunction with a disk-based Ignite-UX
boot helper, see “Using make_tape_recovery and Dual-media Boot” (page 264)
• make_tape_recovery within a vPars-environment, see “Using make_tape_recovery
within a vPars Environment” (page 265)
• golden images for recovery, see the white paper Using Golden Images with Virtual Partitions
• peripheral boot devices, see the white paper Booting, Installing, Recovery, and Sharing in a
vPars Environment from DVD/CDROM/TAPE/Network
• Ignite-UX, including make_net_recovery and make_tape_recovery, see the manual
Ignite-UX Administration Guide and the manpages make_net_recovery(1M) and
make_tape_recovery(1M).
The white papers listed above are available on the BSC website at:
http://www.hp.com/go/hpux-vpars-docs
Using vparboot -I with Ignite-UX on PA-RISC systems:
When using Ignite-UX version C.06.xx or later, note that the bootable kernel path has changed
• from /opt/ignite/boot/WINSTALL in Ignite-UX B.05.xx and earlier
• to /opt/ignite/boot/Rel_B.11.NN/WINSTALL in Ignite-UX C.06.xx and later
Thus, when using Ignite-UX C.06.xx or later, you must specify the absolute path for the bootable
kernel for the vparboot -Icommand line.
For more information and an example, see “(PA-RISC only) The WINSTALL Boot Kernel Paths with
Different Versions of Ignite-UX and the vparboot -I command” (page 21).
Using make_net_recovery within a vPars Environment
Archiving Virtual Partition
make_net_recovery works the same for making archives of both non-vPars and vPars systems.
Recovering a Virtual Partition from a Running Virtual Partition
To recover a virtual partition, perform the following from a running virtual partition. (In these
examples, the partition winona1 is running and the target partition winona2 is the partition being
recovered.)
1. Record the following:
a. the autoboot attribute of the target partition using vparstatus. You may need to set it
back to this state in the last step.
winona1# vparstatus -p winona2
[Virtual Partition]
Virtual Partition Name State Attributes
========================== ===== ==========
winona2 Down Dyn,Manual
b. the contents of the AUTO file in the LIF area of the primary boot disk pointed to by stable
storage. Use the lifcp command to see the contents.
2. Set the TERM environment variable to hpterm. For POSIX shell, the command is
winona1# export TERM=hpterm
3. Boot the target partition and point the boot kernel to use your Ignite-UX server (assume the
Ignite server’s IP is ww.xx.yy.zz):
winona1# vparboot -p winona2 -I ww.xx.yy.zz,/opt/ignite/boot/WINSTALL
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