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HP A9834-9001B User Manual

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Chapter 4

Booting and Shutting Down the Operating System

System Boot Configuration Options

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CAUTION

An nPartition on an HP Integrity server cannot boot HP-UX virtual partitions when in
nPars

boot mode. Likewise, an nPartition on an HP Integrity server cannot boot an

operating system outside of a virtual partition when in vPars boot mode.

To display or set the boot mode for an nPartition on a cell-based HP Integrity server, use any of the
following tools as appropriate. Refer to Installing and Managing HP-UX Virtual Partitions (vPars), Sixth
Edition, for details, examples, and restrictions.

— parconfig EFI shell command

The parconfig command is a built-in EFI shell command. Refer to the help parconfig command for
details.

— \EFI\HPUX\vparconfig EFI shell command

The vparconfig command is delivered in the \EFI\HPUX directory on the EFI system partition of the
disk where HP-UX virtual partitions has been installed on a cell-based HP Integrity server. For usage
details, enter the vparconfig command with no options.

— vparenv HP-UX command

On cell-based HP Integrity servers only, the vparenv HP-UX command is installed on HP-UX 11iv2
(B.11.23) systems that have the HP-UX virtual partitions software. Refer to vparenv (1m) for details.

NOTE

On HP Integrity servers, nPartitions that do not have the parconfig EFI shell command
do not support virtual partitions and are effectively in nPars boot mode.

HP recommends that you do not use the parconfig EFI shell command and instead use
the \EFI\HPUX\vparconfig EFI shell command to manage the boot mode for nPartitions
on cell-based HP Integrity servers.

Refer to Installing and Managing HP-UX Virtual Partitions (vPars), Sixth Edition, for
details.

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