Managing Systems and Workgroups: A Guide for HP-UX System Administrators

Administering a System: Booting and Shutdown

Booting Systems

Chapter 5506

Conﬁguring Boot-Time System Tests from the BCH Menu (HP

9000 Systems Only)

From the BCH Conﬁguration Menu use the FASTBOOT command to

conﬁgure SpeedyBoot settings for a system (or nPartition).

Step 1. Access the system console for your system or nPartition and reset the

partition to return to the BCH Main Menu.

After powering on or resetting your computer (or nPartition) take control

of the boot process by hitting any key on the console keyboard so that

autoboot/autosearch will not boot the system automatically (if they are

currently enabled). The Boot Console Handler will display its main

menu.

Step 2. At the BCH Main Menu, enter the co command to enter the BCH

Conﬁguration Menu.

Step 3. At the BCH Conﬁguration Menu use the FASTBOOT command to list or

conﬁgure the SpeedyBoot settings.

Enter FASTBOOT with no arguments to display the current SpeedyBoot

settings for your system or nPartition.

NOTE HP recommends that all self tests be performed, but recognizes the need

to have your system available as quickly as possible.

To enable all tests, use the FASTBOOT RUN command at the BCH

Conﬁguration menu.

Next Boot The values for each test that will be used on the next

boot. If they are different from Current, the Current

values will be reestablished after the next boot. on,

off, and partial are the same as for Current.

Table 5-3 SpeedyBoot Status Table Headers (Continued)

Column Description