Booting a Virtual Partition

If the vparboot fails but vparstatus shows the target virtual partition as down, try the vparboot again after waiting a few seconds. There is a small window of time after a virtual partition is downed by the shutdown or vparreset command before you can perform the vparboot command successfully.

(PA-RISC only) On nPartitionable servers, memory assigned to a virtual partition is scrubbed as part of the boot process. This will increase boot times, proportional to the amount of memory assigned the virtual partition. Further, if the virtual partition that is being booted owns the hardware console port, there will be a pause in the console output. For more information, see “Switchover Pause with Shutting Down”.

(Integrity only) Under vPars A.05.02 and later, the vPars Monitor supports launching an install kernel from CD or DVD media with the vparload -p partition_name -D disk_index command. For details, see “vPars Monitor: Using vPars Monitor Commands”.

When there is a pending Reboot for Reconfiguration for the involved nPartition, the target virtual partition of the vparload or vparboot commands will not be booted until all the virtual partitions have been shutdown and the vPars Monitor rebooted. For more information see “Shutting Down or Rebooting the nPartition (Or Rebooting the vPars Monitor)”.

For memory considerations when booting, see “Memory: Allocation Notes”.