Moving resources to vPar

[riles22]

This is on an rp7420 running HPUX 11.11.  The system has two nPars, and in one nPar there are two vPars.  The nPar has two Fibre Channel/GigE combo cards, one assigned to each vPar.  

vpar1 boots from local disk, and has storage via the fibre channel hba.  vpar 2 boots from san off of its hba.

What I need to to is move the FC/GigE combo card from vpar 2 over to vpar 1.  I don't care about vpar 2.  The path to the LBA on vpar 2 is 0.0.12.

My problem is, in order to add the io hardware with vparmodify to vpar 1 (e.g. vparmodify -p vpar1 -a io:0.0.12) , vpar 2 cannot own that hardware path.  Unfortunately, in order to run the command from that vpar, that path has to be up because it's a boot from san os.

I tried deleting vpar2, then running vparmodify on vpar1 to add the path, but it complains that the partition has to be down in order to do this.

So...any ideas how I can get that io path added to vpar1?

Thanks in advance...