A method, computer system, and computer program product for error monitoring partitions in the computer system. Provided to each partition is a partition status indicator (PSI) denoting a RUNNING or FAIL status of the partition. During booting, it is ascertained whether each partition has the RUNNING or FAIL status, and the PSI of each partition is accordingly set to the RUNNING status or the FAIL status, respectively. An error procedure performed for each first partition whose partition status indicator indicates the FAIL status includes: copying each error entry in the ELA of the first partition whose ESI indicates the UNREAD status into the ELA of a second (running) partition; setting the ESI to the READ status for each copied error entry in the ELA of the first partition; and having the ESI set to the UNREAD status for each copied error entry in the ELA of the second partition.