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

Known Problems and Workarounds
A Virtual Partition Remains in Load State with sx2000 Chipset and Madison9M CPU
Chapter 326
1. Issue a hard reset using vparreset to the virtual partition.
For example, if winona2 remains in the load state, to issue a hard reset:
winona1# vparreset -p winona2 -h
2. When the target partition is in the down state, attempt booting the
partition using vparboot.
For example:
winona1# vparboot -p winona2
The virtual partition should recover and boot properly.