HP-UX Virtual Partitions Release Notes (A.04.03)

Known Problems and Workarounds
On Integrity Servers, Booting a Tape Device May Cause the vPars Monitor to Reset
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On Integrity Servers, Booting a Tape Device May Cause the
vPars Monitor to Reset
Related JAG or Patch ID Number
JAGag13374
Applicable on
❏ vPars A.04.xx on Integrity
Description
Tape recovery, including booting from a tape device, is not supported on
Integrity servers. On an Integrity server, if you attempt to boot a virtual
partition using the tape device that has been configured using the :TAPE
attribute, the vPars Monitor may panic.
Symptoms
On Integrity servers, if you attempt to execute the command
# vparboot -p
target_vpar -B TAPE
where TAPE is the tape device previously configured using the :TAPE
attribute, the vPars Monitor may panic with an MCA (Machine Check
Abort).
Workaround
None. Note that tape recovery, including booting from a tape device, is
supported only on PA servers; it is not supported on Integrity servers