In our example vPars in Chapter 2, we had autoboot set to off for our Virtual Partition. The setboot command on a non-vPars system reads from and writes to stable storage. On a vPars system the setboot command interacts with the Virtual Partition database. Running setboot on a vPars system has the effects shown in Table 3-2:
Table 3-2. setboot and Virtual Partitions
vPars setboot Option
Description
-a
Changes the alternate boot path of the Virtual Partition.
To set the alternate boot path:
# setboot -a 0/8/0/0.8.0.5.0.0.0
-b
Sets the autoboot attribute of the Virtual Partition.
To set Autoboot on:
# setboot -b on
-p
Changes the primary boot path of the Virtual Partition.
To set the primary boot path:
# setboot -p 0/0/1/1.2.0
-s
Has no effect.
no options
Displays information about boot attributes.
The setboot command is one of the aspects of working with vPars that is different from a non-vPars system.
You can also set the primary and alternate boot paths with vparmodify.
