Virtual Partition Boot Process Overview
Booting partitions is similar to booting without partitions. The primary difference is the Virtual Partition Monitor - what I'll call vpmon in this chapter. vpmon is loaded at the time of boot and is located in /stand/vpmon.
The vpmon sits between the firmware and operating system on your HP system. Figure 1-10 depicts the position of the vpmon relative to other HP system components.
Figure 1-10. Virtual Partitions Software Stack
Notice in the figure that different versions and patch levels of HP-UX 11i may be running in vPars. On Itanium Processor Family (IPF) systems, operating systems other than HP-UX ...
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