HP-UX Virtual Partitions Release Notes (A.05.05)

OS-Prompt> reboot /* to reboot the system into vPars mode */
• If you are at the Monitor prompt, use the following Monitor command to switch to nPars
mode:
MON> reboot nPars /* sets the mode and reboots the system */
• If you are at the EFI shell prompt, use the following EFI utility to switch to either nPars or
vPars mode:
Shell:> fsN:
fsN:> vparconfig reboot nPars|vPars
Since vparconfig is not a built-in EFI shell command, you must go to the disk to execute
vparconfig. For example, to switch to vPars mode:
Shell:> fs0: /* go to the EFI partition of the disk */
fs0:> vparconfig reboot vPars /* sets the mode and reboots 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 the 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 reset command to
reset the system so 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.
Known Problems Fixed in This Version
This section lists the known problems fixed in vPars A.05.05.
For information on specific defects, see the HP ITRC at http://itrc.hp.com.
• QXCR1000806786 vPar assigned with SAS HBA AH303A as the boot device fails to boot.
You must install the EFI Boot Services Driver version 3.05.01.01 or later versions in order to
resolve this issue.
• QXCR1000824412 Update of efipath/hpux hwpath mapping fails when a path from deneb
hardware is given
• QXCR1000812861 Intermittent system hangs when displaying large output on console
• QXCR1000821997 vparcreate command fails
• QXCR1000765131 panic: RAM FS space exceeds available memory
• QXCR1000757372 nPartition console appears to hang on a system configured with vPars
• QXCR1000753480 Long hardware path from AD221A (PCIe 1 port 4Gb FC & 1 port GigE
HBA) card not recognized by vparmodify
• QXCR1000764504 Virtual partition does not boot when boot disk has been added to
vpdb using extended hardware path (agile hardware path)
Known Problems Fixed in This Version 7