topic Re: cannot boot vpar from tape in Operating System - HP-UX

cannot boot vpar from tape

pedliz12 — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 23:25:43 GMT

i caanot boot from tape on vpar
here are the errors:vparboot -p vpar5 -B TAPE
vparboot: Booting vpar5. Please wait...
Failed to open tape(1/0/4/1/0.4.1.3.0;0):WINSTALL
Failed to load tape(1/0/4/1/0.4.1.3.0;0):WINSTALL
[MON] vpar5 has halted.
# vparboot -p vpar5 -B tape
vparboot: Booting vpar5. Please wait...
Failed to open tape(1/0/4/1/0.4.1.3.0;0):WINSTALL
Failed to load tape(1/0/4/1/0.4.1.3.0;0):WINSTALL
[MON] vpar5 has halted.

Re: cannot boot vpar from tape

Mridul Shrivastava — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 23:34:47 GMT

vpar boot from tape is not supported yet. May be the next/latest release supports that but prior to that it was not supported so try booting from ignite server.

Re: cannot boot vpar from tape

Torsten. — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 00:50:01 GMT

See the docs:

"For PA-RISC servers, beginning with vPars A.03.03 for HP-UX 11i v1 and A.04.03 for HP-UX 11iv2, vPars
supports tape drives. This includes recovery of a virtual partition within a vPars environment and without
using an Ignite-UX server as a boot helper."

So you can only boot a vPar on a PA-RISC system from tape.

Re: cannot boot vpar from tape

whiteknight — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 01:03:32 GMT

A.03.03 released for HP-UX 11.11 PA-RISC

The vPars A.03.x series of releases for HP-UX 11.11 continues with the
release of vPars A.03.03.

This release introduces two new features and important bug fixes:

o tape boot support
o Primary-Admin vPars Security
o IPMI fix to delayed logging of system hardware issues

Tape boot support allows for recovery of individual vPars from
Ignite-UX recovery tapes while other virtual partitions are running.

WK

Re: cannot boot vpar from tape

whiteknight — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 01:05:19 GMT

hi

vPars version A.04.04
======================
The following features are new with the A.04.04 release of vPars:
â ¢ Support for HP 9000 rp7440, rp8440, Superdome sx2000 Servers (Arches PA
platforms)
â ¢ Pre-enablement of SCSI Tape Boot and Recovery for Integrity Servers. (For
complete functionality there will be firmware update needed which is currently expected to be available around Sep 2007).

This release also contains defect fixes.

For more details, please refer to the Release Notes:
http://docs.hp.com/en/T1335-90072/T1335-90072.pdf

WK