User`s guide
Table Of Contents
- NovaScale 4020 User's Guide
- Preface
- Contents
- 1 System Description
- 2 Board Set Description
- 3 Configuration Software and Utilities
- Utilities / Drivers on Resource CD
- Power-on Sequence and Power-on Self-Test (POST)
- Extensible Firmware Interface Boot Manager
- The Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) Shell
- BIOS Setup
- LSI Logic* SCSI Utility
- System Maintenance Utility
- EFI Platform Diagnostic Tests
- EFI Service Partition
- Console Redirection
- Terminal Mode
- Shutting Down the Server
- Servicing the System (basic knowledge)
- A Warning and Cautions
- B Working Inside the System
- C Hot-swapping System Components
- D Servicing the Electronics Bay
- Safety Warnings
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3. From the menu tab, use the arrow keys to navigate to the Utility menu and press <Enter>
or the use the <down arrow> to expand the menu.
4. From the Utility menu, arrow to Install Service Partition and press <Enter>
to launch the Service Partition Administration menu.
5. Choose 3 and press <Enter> to install the service partition files.
6. The installation software reports whether a system partition has been found. If so, it is
recommended that you install the service partition files onto the existing system partition.
Do so by choosing 1 and pressing <Enter>.
7. Choose the number for the system partition on which to install the partition files and press
<Enter>.
8. After receiving the message indicating that all files were installed successfully, press any
key.
9. Press <ESC> to exit the Service Partition Administration menu and return to the EFI CD
menu.
Booting from the Service Partition
The service partition contains utilities and diagnostics. To run these utilities or diagnostics, you
need to boot the server from the service partition. You can reboot a managed server from the
service partition either locally or remotely. When you reboot the server to the service partition
remotely, you can do the following:
• Run EFI shell commands on the server
• Run a program from the service partition
• Run diagnostics specific to the server
• Run the SMU to configure the server for Server Management
Locally
Follow these steps to locally boot the server to the service partition:
1. Restart the managed server.
2. Monitor the boot process and press <F2> when prompted to enter BIOS setup.
3. Arrow to the System Management menu, and select Enabled for the Service Boot option.
4. Press <F10> to save the setting and exit out of the BIOS setup. The system automatically
reboots to the Service Partition.