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Update Considerations
HP Service Partition Is Not Created During Update
If you are updating from a supported update path (see “Supported
Update Paths to HP-UX 11i v2” on page 34), HP Service Partition will
not be created or modified. OnlineDiag will continue to work properly.
Offline Diagnostics, however, will work with reduced functionality.
In order to have full Offline Diagnostics functionality, you must:
1. Update your system.
2. Back up your system with either make_net_recovery or
make_tape_recovery.
3. Re-configure your boot disk partition layout to include the HP
Service Partition.
4. Restore your system with either make_net_recovery or
make_tape_recovery. Consult the Ignite-UX Administration Guide
for more details about make_net_recovery and
make_tape_recovery.
5. Update the Offline Diagnostics with the latest version of the HP
Itanium-Processor Family Offline Diagnostics and Utilities CD. See
“About Offline Diagnostics” on page 71.
How to Determine If You Have an HP Service Partition
To determine if an HP Service partition exists on your system, enter the
following command on your physical disk volume (here named
/dev/rdsk/c2t1d0):
idisk -p /dev/rdsk/c2t1d0
Example 2-1 idisk Output from Disk without HP Service Partition
idisk version: 1.31
EFI Primary Header:
Signature = EFI PART
Revision = 0x10000
HeaderSize = 0x5c
HeaderCRC32 = 0x20e10a24
MyLbaLo = 0x1