vpars - booting vapars from alternate disk

[Ian_132]

I have created a 3 vpar solution on a rp7420. Each vpar has 2 disks, one for primary boot and the other for alternate boot.

When I boot either npar Primary or Alternate disks, all three vPars start from their appropriate Primary assigned disk.

The problem I have is that once the 3 vPars are running, I shutdown each vPar inturn and attempt to start the vPar from its Alternate assigned boot disk. This works fine for vpar01 and vpar02, but the vpar crashes for vPar00.

Here is how I have currenly setup the 3 vpars

nPar has the folloing Primary & Alternate disks assigned

Primary is 1/0/0/3/0.6.0
AUTO file is hpux /stand/vpmon -a

Alternate is 1/0/10/1/0.8.0
AUTO file is hpux /stand/vpmon -a

The alternate disk here is a primary disk for vPar01 as stated in the vPar installation Guide (June 2004). It states that to Auto boot with vpmon, the alternate disk is to be assigned from another vPar.

Vpar00

Primary disk is 1/0/0/3/0.6.0
AUTO file states hpux /stand/vpmon -a (set with mkboot)

Alternate disk is 1/0/1/1/0/1/1.6.0
AUTO file states hpux -lq (set with mkboot)

Vpar01
Primary disk is 1/0/10/1/0.8.0
AUTO file states hpux /stand/vpmon -a (set with mkboot)

Alternate disk is 0/0/2/1/0.8.0
AUTO file states hpux -lq (set with mkboot)

Vpar02

Primary disk is 0/0/4/1/0.8.0
AUTO file states hpux -lq (set with mkboot)

Alternate disk is 1/0/12/1/0.8.0
AUTO file states hpux -lq (set with mkboot)

Just in case this is the issue, if I check each kernel path via the vpar manager GUI, all have /stand/vmunix

Can anyone help point out what the issue is

[Duncan Edmonstone]

What's the output of:

vparstatus -p vpar00 -v

What is ALTBOOT set to here?

HTH

Duncan

[Ian_132]

The Alternate path for vpar00 is set to 1/0/1/1/0/1/1.6.0.

Also, I have been able to boot the nPar from this Alternate disk

[Alzhy]

That is strange indeed. What version of vPars are you running?

Our vPar system is not set to autostart vpmon and all the vpars so we've not ran accross this issue.

[Ian_132]

I am running the latest version of vPars which I believe is A.03.01

I have also found that there was an issue back in March this year where vpmon alters the alternate boot path for 1/0/1/1/0/1/1.6.0, therefore causing the system not to boot. This was a BUG but I don't know if its been fixed and therefore what the Patch number is.

Does anyone know?