Installing and Managing HP-UX Virtual Partitions (A.01.01)

Monitor and Shell Commands
Using Other Boot Options
Chapter 5 103
Overriding Quorum
In LVM, when the root disk is mirrored, the computer can only activate
the root volume group, which contains the OS instance, when the
majority of the physical volumes in a root volume group are present at
boot time. This is called establishing a quorum. Sometimes, you may
want to boot an OS instance regardless of whether a quorum is
established. You can override the quorum requirement by using the -lq
option. For more information on quorums, see the book "Managing
Systems and Workgroups."
On a non-vPars computer, you would boot overriding quorum using:
ISL> hpux -lq
On a vPars computer, you can execute either of the following:
From MON> From the monitor prompt, to boot winona2 overriding the quorum
requirement:
MON> vparload -p winona2 -o "-lq"
From shell prompt From the running virtual partitionwinona1, to bootwinona2 overriding
the quorum requirement:
winona1# vparboot -p winona2 -o "-lq"
NOTE Specifying the boot options from the command line only affects the
current boot. On a non-vPars computer, to have a computer permanently
boot with the -lq option, you would put "hpux -lq" in the LIF AUTO file.
On a vPars computer, to have a partition boot with the -lq option, you
would simulate the AUTO file usage by entering the -lq option into the
partition database. See “Simulating the AUTO File on a Partition” on
page 104.