Recovery of a vpar itanium-based

[Guilherme Fortes_1]

Hello,
I've a vpar - itanium-based platform, whith HP-UX 11.23, and an ignite-UX server - PA-RISC, HP-UX 11.11. I did a make_net_recovery succesfully of the vpar. Now, I want to test a recovery to the vpar via the Ignite Server, but i'm experiencing some dificulties. I tried to use "vparboot -p satelite2 -I 17.20.12.16,/opt/ignite/boot/Rel_B.11.23/IINSTALL", where the IP is the Ignite Server IP, and I've got the following error message:
vparboot: Error: "-I 17.20.12.16,/opt/ignite/boot/Rel_B.11.23/IINSTALL": No argument is allowed for this option on Itanium(R)-based platforms.
Usage:
vparboot -p vp_name [-b kernel_path] [-o boot_opts] [-B boot_addr]
vparboot -p vp_name -I

I tried this command from another running vpar.
I suppose this command is used only over PA-RISC platform. Can you help, please, how to recover a vpar itanium-based?

[melvyn burnard]

What version of Ignite/UX is on your server?
You may need to refer to page 235 of:
http://docs.hp.com/en/T1335-90051/T1335-90051.pdf
Check the Note about a third of the way down

[Torsten.]

From the docs:

"The following is the sequence of events when a vparboot -I is issued from an existing virtual partition to
boot a target virtual partition for an Integrity System:
1. the vPars Monitor sets the necessary variables such that the EFI shell will execute a lanboot select
from the target virtual partition.
2. lanboot select lists the lan cards that are supported for boot that are within the target virtual partition
and prompts the user to select one of the listed cards."



So you have to issue the "vparboot -p blabla -I" command and interact with the EFI shell.

Of course, it is also important to use a supported ignite version.

[Sameer_Nirmal]

Just try by running
vparboot -p vp_name -I

Don't provide any option or argument here.
In Vpar Ver A.04.xx , vparboot is smart enough to look for the location of the installation kernel within destination IG-UX server.

[Miguel Hernández]

Also watch page 74 of that manual.

Greetings

[Guilherme Fortes_1]

Tks all of you for your replay. The version of Ignite-UX on my server is C.6.2.241. I think this version works well with vpars.
I gonna try your suggestions, Torsten and Nirmal, and I'm cheking the doc, Burnard.

[Torsten.]

Your ignite version looks good. I can't try it, but the manual says:

Shell> lanboot select 01 Acpi(000222F0,0)/Pci(1|0)/Mac(00306E0E5268) 02 Acpi(000222F0,800)/Pci(1|0)/Mac(00108327549F) Select Desired LAN: 1Selected Acpi(000222F0,0)/Pci(1|0)/Mac(00306E0E5268) Running LoadFile() CLIENT MAC ADDR: 00 30 6e 0e 52 68


So I would expect the system is waiting for your input here (if you have more than 1 NIC). Perhaps you can use the profile to do a direct boot, see from EFI "help dbprofile".

Please let us know your results.

[Torsten.]

Your ignite version looks good. I can't try it, but the manual says:

Shell> lanboot select

01 Acpi(000222F0,0)/Pci(1|0)/Mac(00306E0E5268)
02 Acpi(000222F0,800)/Pci(1|0)/Mac(00108327549F)

Select Desired LAN: 1

Selected Acpi(000222F0,0)/Pci(1|0)/Mac(00306E0E5268)

Running LoadFile()

CLIENT MAC ADDR: 00 30 6e 0e 52 68

(looks better)

So I would expect the system is waiting for your input here (if you have more than 1 NIC). Perhaps you can use the profile to do a direct boot, see from EFI "help dbprofile".

Please let us know your results.