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Procedures for Booting and Resetting nPartitions
Rebooting or Resetting an nPartition
HP System Partitions Guide: Administration for nPartitions—rp7410
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Rebooting or Resetting an nPartition
When you perform a reboot or reset of an nPartition, all active cells in the
partition reboot and return to BCH or HP-UX. Any inactive cells in the
nPartition are not rebooted in this procedure.
You can reset and reboot an nPartition by using these methods:
• Service Processor (GSP or MP) on page 163
This procedure (service processor Command menu RS command)
resets an nPartition using the service processor.
• BCH on page 164
This procedure (BCH interface REBOOT command) resets an
nPartition using the partition’s BCH interface.
• HP-UX on page 164
This procedure (shutdown -r command) resets an nPartition from
HP-UX running on the partition.
NOTE If possible you should down HP-UX before resetting an nPartition.
HP’s nPartition servers also support other types of nPartition resetting.
Refer to the following sections for details on these other partition reset
methods:
• “Shutting Down HP-UX on an nPartition”
• “Performing a Reboot for Reconfig for an nPartition”
• “Holding an nPartition at a Ready for Reconfig State”
• “Performing a Transfer-of-Control (TOC) Reset of a Partition”
HP Restricted / DRAFT
DRAFT NOV 2001