HP-UX 11i December 2004 Release Notes

nPartition (Hard Partition) Systems
New and Modified Hard Partition Commands
Chapter 4
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Additionally, systems with hard partitions support a boot action for each path. However,
boot actions for paths other than the primary path cannot be set using setboot. (In this
case, the default boot action for boot paths on nPartitions is “skip this device and try next
path,” [a path flag value of 2.]) Instead, setting both the Autosearch and Autoboot flags
to “on” (setboot -b on -s on) means that if the PRI path fails to boot, then booting the
HAA boot path will not be attempted unless the HAA path flag is set to a non-default value
(such as 1 or 2, which attempt booting HAA).
In the default case (when the HAA boot path is not set to “boot from the path”), specifying
setboot -b on -s on will not cause an alternate path to be automatically booted when
the primary path fails. Instead the user will be prompted.
Documentation
• Manpages of all nPartition commands have been updated to document the new
options.
• A new manpage for cplxmodify (1M) has been newly added, and it will be available
only if the enhanced nPartition commands product is installed.
• Release Notes for nPartition commands can be accessed from http://docs.hp.com.