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Introduction to nPartitions
Rebooting to Implement nPartition Changes
HP System Partitions Guide: Administration for nPartitions—rp7410
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• Reset an nPartition to a ready for reconfig state (shutdown -R -H)
to make the partition inactive.
All cells in a partition remain inactive when the partition is in a
ready for reconfig state; the cells do not perform a partition
rendezvous.
• Perform a standard reboot (shutdown -r) of an nPartition in most
other situations where you do not need to add or remove cells from
the partition.
A standard reboot causes only the currently active cells in a partition
to reboot, and it does not allow any pending complex configuration
changes to complete (the changes remain pending, still requiring a
reboot for reconfig for them to be in effect).
Pending changes that require a reboot for reconfig (shutdown -R, not
a shutdown -r) include removing an active cell from an nPartition.
The cell cannot be unassigned until its partition has a reboot for
reconfig performed.
Other changes, such as adding a cell to a partition, or changing a
cell’s use-on-next-boot value from “n” to “y”, also require performing a
reboot for reconfig (shutdown -R, nor -r) to enable the inactive cell to
become active.
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DRAFT NOV 2001