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HP System Partitions Guide: Administration for nPartitions—rp7410
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Using Virtual Front Panels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
4. Boot and Reset Overview for nPartitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Types of Booting and Resetting for nPartitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Boot Process for nPartitions, Cells, and HP-UX. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Overview of nPartition Boot Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Tools for Managing nPartition Booting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Configuring and Planning Partition Boot Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Configurable Boot Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Guidelines for Configuring Partition Boot Settings . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Checklist for Booting Partitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Monitoring Partition Boot Activity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Troubleshooting Boot Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Boot States and Activities for Partitions and Cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
5. Procedures for Booting and Resetting nPartitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Accessing a Partition Console and BCH Interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Finding Bootable Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Booting HP-UX on an nPartition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Booting an nPartition to the ISL Prompt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Booting HP-UX in Single-User or LVM-Maintenance Mode . . . . . . . . 157
Booting from an HP-UX Installation Source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Shutting Down HP-UX on an nPartition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Rebooting or Resetting an nPartition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Performing a Reboot for Reconfig for an nPartition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Holding a Partition at a Ready for Reconfig State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Performing a Transfer-of-Control (TOC) Reset of a nPartition. . . . . . 169
Booting an Inactive nPartition Past Boot-Is-Blocked (BIB) . . . . . . . . 171
Listing nPartition Boot Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Configuring Boot Paths and Boot Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Configuring Autoboot and Autostart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Autoboot Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Autostart Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Configuring Automatic System Restart for a nPartition . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Configuring Fast Boot Settings (Self Tests) for a nPartition. . . . . . . . 190
Configuring the Boot Timer for a Partition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
HP Restricted / DRAFT
DRAFT NOV 2001