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Boot and Reset Overview for nPartitions
Types of Booting and Resetting for nPartitions
HP System Partitions Guide: Administration for nPartitions—rp7410
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The shutdown -R -H command, the BCH interface’s RECONFIGRESET
command, and the service processor Command menu’s RR command
all reset a partition to ready for reconfig state.
nPartition Booting
Summary
The following list summarizes all types of booting, rebooting, and
resetting that are supported for HP hard-partitionable systems.
When rebooting HP-UX on an nPartition under normal circumstances
(when not reconfiguring or halting it) use the shutdown -r command.
• Reboot—Shuts down HP-UX and reboots the partition.
Only the partition’s active cells are rebooted.
To perform a standard reboot of a partition use the shutdown -r
command.
• Halt—Shuts down HP-UX, halts all processing on the partition, and
does not reboot.
To perform this task use the shutdown -h command.
To reboot a halted partition use the service processor Command
menu’s RS command.
• Reset—Resets the partition immediately.
Only the partition’s active cells are reset.
You can reset a partition using the BCH interface’s REBOOT command
or the service processor Command menu’s RS command.
The RS command does not check whether the specified partition is in
use or running HP-UX—be certain to correctly specify the partition.
• Boot—Boots an inactive partition past the ready for reconfig state.
The partition’s cells proceed past boot-is-blocked (BIB), rendezvous,
and the partition boots to the BCH interface.
To boot an inactive partition use the service processor Command
menu’s BO command.
• Reboot for Reconfig—Shuts down HP-UX, resets all cells assigned
to the partition, performs any partition reconfigurations, and boots
the partition back to the BCH interface.
All cells—including any inactive cells and all newly added or deleted
cells—reboot and are reconfigured. All cells with a “y”
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