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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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use-on-next-boot setting participate in partition rendezvous and
synchronize to boot as a single partition.
To perform a reboot for reconfig use the shutdown -R command.
• Ready for Reconfig State—Shuts down HP-UX, resets all cells
assigned to the partition, performs any partition reconfigurations,
and keeps all cells at a boot-is-blocked (BIB) state, thus making the
partition and all of its cells inactive.
When a partition is in a ready for reconfig state, you can reconfigure
(or remove) the partition from a remote partition.
To put a partition into a ready for reconfig state use the
shutdown -R -H command, the BCH interface’s RECONFIGRESET
command, or the service processor Command menu’s RR command.
To boot an inactive partition past ready for reconfig, use the service
processor Command menu’s BO command.
• Transfer-of-Control (TOC) Reset—Immediately performs a TOC
reset, which resets the partition and allows a crash dump to be saved.
If crash dump is configured for HP-UX on a partition, then when you
TOC the partition while it is running HP-UX the partition performs a
crash dump and lets you select the type of dump.
To perform a TOC reset use the service processor Command menu’s
TC command.
HP nPartition systems do not have TOC buttons on the server cabinet
hardware.
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