Installing and Managing HP-UX Virtual Partitions (includes A.04.03)

Chapter 8
nPartition Operations
Reconfiguring an nPartition (PA-RISC)
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Reconfiguring an nPartition (PA-RISC)
For the following example, the virtual partitions keira1 and keira2 exist within the nPartition 0. Only
relevant output is shown.
1. Perform the changes as you would in a non-vPars environment. For example, if we want to add cell 6 to
partition 0:
keira1# parmodify -p0 -a 6:base:y:ri
In order to activate any cell that has been newly added,reboot the partition with the -R option.
Command succeeded.
2. Perform a Reboot-for-Reconfig (RFR) from a virtual partition. For example,
keira1# vparstatus
keira1# shutdown -R
.
.
.
Transition to run-level0 is complete.
Executing "/sbin/reboot-R ".
Note: If this is a partitionable system, the requested reconfiguration will not take place until
all the virtual partitions on this hard partition are shut down and the virtual partition Monitor
is rebooted.
Shutdown at 16:09 (in 0 minutes)
At this point, the nPartition is in the Boot-Is-Blocked (BIB) state. The virtual partition keira1 remains
down until all the virtual partitions have been shutdown and the Monitor rebooted.
Note also that once the nPartition is in the BIB state, vparstatus shows the following message:
Note: A profile change is pending. The hard partition must be rebooted to complete it.
3. Shutdown the other virtual partitions. For example:
keira2# vparstatus
keira2# shutdown -R
.
.
.
Transition to run-level0 is complete.
Executing "/sbin/reboot-R ".
Note: If this is a partitionable system, the requested reconfiguration will not take place until
all the virtual partitions on this hard partition are shut down and the virtual partition Monitor
is rebooted.
Shutdown at 16:19 (in 0 minutes)
At this point, all virtual partitions have been shut down. The Monitor will reboot automatically. On the
console, we would see the following message:
All partitions have halted. System will now reboot for reconfiguration.
and the beginning of the boot process for the nPartition: