HP-UX 11i v2 Installation and Update Guide, December 2005

Creating an HP Service Partition
HP Offline Diagnostics Considerations
Appendix A138
HP Offline Diagnostics Considerations
During cold-install or recovery on Itanium-based systems only, Ignite-UX
changes the boot disk partition layout to create a new HP Service
Partition (HPSP). Online and Offline Diagnostics use this 400MB
partition created at the end of the boot disk to hold tools and system
data.
The order of the partitions on the boot disk will be:
1. EFI OS Boot Partition (ESP)
2. HP-UX File System (HPUX)
3. HP Service Partition (HPSP)
During backup and recovery operations, Ignite-UX does not save or
restore any changes you make to the HPSP.
To have full Offline Diagnostics functionality, do the following:
1. Update your system.
2. Back up your system with either make_net_recovery or
make_tape_recovery.
3. Reconfigure your boot disk partition layout to include the HP Service
Partition.
4. Restore your system with either make_net_recovery or
make_tape_recovery. Consult the Ignite-UX Administration Guide
for more details about these commands.
NOTE Itanium systems do not support tape boot. To use the
make_tape_recovery command on systems that lack boot support
refer to the section called, “Tape Recovery with No Tape Boot
Support” in the Ignite-UX Administration Guide. The guide is
available on the HP Technical Documentation Web site:
http://docs.hp.com/hpux/os/11iv2
5. Update the Offline Diagnostics with the latest version of the HP
Itanium-Processor Family Offline Diagnostics and Utilities. See
“Offline Diagnostics” on page 65.