topic Ignite booting in Operating System - HP-UX

Ignite booting

Kwhite_1 — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:31:14 GMT

Hello People,

I have two ignite servers namely say A & B both are on the same subnet. when i boot a server using the vparboot command, it always boots from server A , when I want to boot it from server B, as all the images are on server B. Also the ignite versions are different on server A & B. Both these servers are itanuim. So is there any way that when i ignite boot it point to server B and not server A.

Thanks

Re: Ignite booting

Ninad_1 — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 04:23:08 GMT

Hi,

You need to give the following boot command while booting

vparboot -p vp_name -I ServerB,Ignite_path

e.g.
vparboot -p Trondheim -I mysys.myserver.mydomain.com,/mypath/myinst

Probably its worthwhile for you yo read the man page of vparboot - may be once again.

Regards,
Ninad

Re: Ignite booting

Kwhite_1 — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 04:24:46 GMT

its itanium not RISC

Re: Ignite booting

Jozef_Novak — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 06:31:27 GMT

Hello,

Itanium servers use PXE booting. If there is more than one Ignite (or DHCP) server configured on a subnet, it is not guaranteed which one of these replies as first to the BOOTP request issued by the client. If both of your Ignite servers are on the same subnet, I would suggest to disable the one you don't want the client to boot from temporarily.

J.