How to configure the NPAR and all the VPARs on the NPAR to autoboot

Note: These apply to VPARs versions 4.x/5.x . For the latest in case of any differences refer to the latest documents on the VPARs

HOW CAN WE MAKE ALL THE VPARS AND THE NPAR TO AUTOBOOT?

1) Make the NPAR Autoboot and autosearch to on and define the Primary and the HAA and the Alternate path properly and set the Autoboot to on in the EFI NVRAM setting.

BCH configuration/EFI SHELL> pa pri 0/0/2/0.6.0

BCH configuration/EFI SHELL> pa alt 0/8/0/0.5.0

BCH configuration/EFI SHELL> auto on

2) For the first VPAR and the Second VPAR set the boot string to boot the VPMON and all the VPAR. Say vpar1 is the first VPAR has boot disk as 0/0/2/0.6.0 (/dev/rdsk/c2t6d0) and vpar2 is the VPAR that holds the alternate boot disk 0/8/0/0.5.0 (/dev/rdsk/c1t5d0).

PARISC

vpar1#mkboot –a “hpux /stand/vpmon –a” /dev/rdsk/c2t6d0”

vpar2#mkboot –a “hpux /stand/vpmon –a” /dev/rdsk/c1t5d0”

INTEGRITY

vpar1#mkboot –a “boot /stand/vpmon –a” /dev/rdsk/c2t6d0”

vpar2#mkboot –a “boot /satnd/vpmon –a” /dev/rdsk/c1t5d0”

3) For all the VPARs set the Autoboot and autosearch strings to on.

vpar1#vparmodify –p vpar1 –B auto

vpar1#vparmodify –p vpar1 –B search

vpar1#vparmodify –p vpar2 –B auto

vpar1#vparmodify –p vpar2 –B search

vpar1#vparmodify –p vpar3 –B auto

vpar1#vparmodify –p vpar3 –B search