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

Set the mode and reboot the system.

NOTE: vparconfig is an EFI utility which gets installed in the EFI partition during the

installation of the vPars product.

• If you are at EFI shell prompt in vPars mode and you do not have vPars installed on any of

your disks, you can use the built-in EFI command parconfig to switch to nPars mode:

Shell> parconfig nPars

Shell> parconfig reset

Note: Remember to issue a parconfig reset after setting the mode. parconfig nPars

only sets the mode to nPars. You must issue the parconfig resetto reset the system so that

it boots into nPars mode.

Note: parconfig does not support switching to vPars mode. In other words, you can use

parconfig to set the mode to nPars, but you cannot use parconfig to set the mode to

vPars.

• During a cold-install of the OE and vPars software, the following general steps could occur:

Boot and install the OE and vPars software as well as create the vPars database onto the

intended boot disk of a virtual partition.

2. Set the mode to vPars so that you can boot the nPartition into the vPars environment.

# vparenv -m vPars

3. Reboot the nPartition into the vPars environment and load the first virtual partition.

4. From the first virtual partition, use vparboot -I to install the OE and vPars software onto

the remaining boot disks of the remaining virtual partitions.

For detailed steps on how to do the installation, see “Installing vPars with Ignite-UX on Integrity”

(page 118).

• Suppose you have booted to the vPars Monitor prompt but are unable to load any vPars

databases. You can boot the system into nPars (standalone) mode and attempt to look into

the database without the vPars Monitor running. To do this:

1. Set the mode to nPars and reboot the nPartition:

MON> reboot nPars

2. During the nPartition bootup process, boot into standalone mode by booting the vmunix

kernel instead of the vPars Monitor:

Shell> fs0:

fs0:\> hpux.efi /stand/vmunix

# vparstatus -v -D /stand/vpdb

Modes: Switching between nPars and vPars Modes (Integrity Only) 127