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Procedures for Booting and Resetting nPartitions
Accessing a Partition Console and BCH Interface
HP System Partitions Guide: Administration for nPartitions—rp7410
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• When a partition has booted to ISL you can use the EXIT
command to exit ISL and return to the partition’s BCH interface.
• When a partition has booted HP-UX, in order to access the BCH
interface you must reboot HP-UX (shutdown -r) and if necessary
interrupt the automatic boot process.
Non-Interactive Console Access
In the following situations you cannot interact with the partition’s
console. In these cases you can wait until the console is interactive or can
force interactive access.
• When the partition is resetting or is booting HP-UX you cannot
interact with software running on the partition.
Once the partition has completed resetting, or has completed booting
HP-UX, you can interact with the partition’s BCH or HP-UX prompts.
To determine an nPartition’s boot state use the partition’s Virtual
Front Panel (the VFP menu, available from the service processor
Main menu).
• When another user already is attached to the console you can
access the partition’s console in spy (read-only) mode or can force
write access by typing ^ecf (Control-e c f).
Spy mode allows you to view console information but does not enable
you to enter commands. If you type when accessing a partition
console in spy mode, the console prints the following message.
When in spy mode, you can force access to the partition’s console by
typing ^ecf (Control-e c f). Doing this provides you interactive console
access and forces (“bumps”) the user who was using the console into
spy mode.
[Read-only - use ^Ecf to attach to console.]
[Bumped user - Admin.]
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DRAFT NOV 2001