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Boot and Reset Overview for nPartitions
Checklist for Booting Partitions
HP System Partitions Guide: Administration for nPartitions—rp7410
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Checklist for Booting Partitions
Before you boot a partition, check the items listed here.
• All cells in the partition that have a “y” use-on-next-boot value should
be powered on.
If any cells that are set to be used are powered off, the partition will
take longer to boot.
During partition rendezvous, the partition will wait up to 10 minutes
for all cells that are designated to be used. Any cells not powered on
will not be active or available in the partition.
• All I/O chassis and devices for the partition’s active cells should be
powered on.
• If any cells that have a “y” use-on-next-boot value are inactive,
perform a reboot for reconfig of the partition (shutdown -R) to allow
them to reset and become active during partition rendezvous.
• All complex profile information for the partition must be coherent.
This means all cells assigned to the partition must have identical
complex profile information (Partition Configuration Data).
After you add a cell or remove and active cell from a partition, you
must perform a reboot for reconfig of the partition (shutdown -R) to
synchronize the complex profile data throughout the partition. The
reboot for reconfig also causes all the partition’s cells to reboot and
allows cells to go through the partition rendezvous procedure.
HP Restricted / DRAFT
DRAFT NOV 2001