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Procedures for Booting and Resetting nPartitions
Configuring Autoboot and Autostart
HP System Partitions Guide: Administration for nPartitions—rp7410
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Configuring Autoboot and Autostart
The Autoboot setting specifies whether an nPartition automatically
boots HP-UX. You can configure each nPartition’s Autoboot setting by
modifying the partition’s boot actions for its boot paths. See the Autoboot
Configuration section.
On HP Superdome servers only, you can configure an Autostart setting
for each nPartition to specify the partition’s boot behavior when one or
more self tests fails. See the Autostart Configuration section that follows.
Autoboot Configuration
Each nPartition’s Autoboot setting is established by a combination of its
boot path variable settings and the settings for each path’s boot actions
(determined by its path flags).
You can use the BCH Main menu’s PATH command and the BCH
Configuration menu’s PATHFLAGS command to set boot paths and boot
actions for an nPartition. You also can use the parmodify and setboot
HP-UX commands to configure some of the boot path and action settings.
Refer to the section on Configuring Boot Paths and Boot Actions for
details on configuring these settings to enable Autoboot.
Autostart Configuration
On HP Superdome servers only, the BCH interface’s Autostart setting for
each partition determines the boot behavior when one of the partition’s
components (processors or memory) fails self test.
By default Autostart is set to OFF, and the partition stops at the BCH
interface when a processor or DIMM fails self-test.
When Autostart is ON, the partition proceeds with the normal boot
process and performs the boot actions for its boot paths as necessary.
BCH This procedure (BCH Configuration menu, AU command) configures
Autostart for an nPartition on an HP Superdome server.
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