HP-UX Virtual Partitions Release Notes A.05.07

Symptoms The system panic displays messages similar to the following
EFI\HPUX\AUTO ==> boot vmunix
................
Launching /stand/vmunix
SIZE: Text:29561K + Data:7016K + BSS:7128K = Total:43705K
Console is on virtual console
Booting kernel...
Stored message buffer up to panic:
5028, 0x11, 0x40).
pinned_pdk_malloc_avail_contig(): 0x33000
Bad News: Cannot use the Kernel Stack when interrupted on the ICS.
Bad News: Fault/trap with interrupts disabled and we cared.
reg_dump(): Displaying register values (in hex) from the save state
...
System Panic:
double panic: Bad News!
Workaround After the system comes back up, make sure the system is in the mode you
want (vPars or nPars), then boot the appropriate item (vpmon for vPars mode and vmunix
for nPars mode).
Related Information
This section lists the official vPars documents. All documents, including additional topic-specific
papers related to using vPars, are available at the HP Documentation web site at:
http://docs.hp.com/en/oshpux11iv3.html#Virtual%20Partitions
• HP-UX Virtual Partitions Release Notes (this document)
This describes what’s new as well as known problems for a specific vPars release.
• HP-UX Virtual Partitions Administrator’s Guide
This is the vPars system administrator's guide that describes the basic concepts and common
tasks for the vPars product.
• HP-UX Virtual Partitions Ordering and Configuration Guide
This document contains information on licensing and version requirements for the vPars
product and related HP-UX products, such as HP-UX 11i Operating Environments (OEs),
for servers using vPars. The document also contains the information on supported hardware,
firmware, I/O cards and devices, and other HP-UX products used with vPars.
• Topic Specific Papers:
— Booting, Installing, Recovery, and Sharing in a vPars Environment from
DVD/CDROM/TAPE/Network
— Configuring and Migrating Memory on vPars
— CPU Configuration Guidelines for vPars
— Guidelines for Configuring Virtual Partitions on Cellular Platforms
— Introducing HP-UX 11i Virtual Partitions
— LVM/VxVM and vPars sx2000 Upgrade
— Mixed OS (HP-UX 11i v2/v3) Considerations in vPars A.05.xx
— Securing Virtual Partitions with HP-UX Role-Based Access Control
— Top Ten Tips for Using Virtual Partitions
— Using Golden Images with Virtual Partitions
— Kernel Memory Allocation
— LPMC and resulting CPU States
— LVM & vPars I/O Backplane Upgrade
— Resizing vPars automatically with HP-UX Workload Manager
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