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

Administering a System: Booting and Shutdown
Booting Systems
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To disable an individual test, enter: FASTBOOT test SKIP, where test is
the name of the self test (“PDH”, “EARLY”, or “LATE”).
To enable an individual test, enter: FASTBOOT test RUN.
For details on setting self tests, enter: HELP FASTBOOT at the BCH
Configuration Menu
Step 4. Repeat Step 3 until the settings reflect your desired settings, then reboot
your system.
Configuring Boot-Time System Tests from the EFI Shell (HP
Integrity Servers Only)
From the EFI Shell environment use the boottest command to manage
the SpeedyBoot settings for a system (or nPartition).
Step 1. Access the EFI Shell environment for your system (or the nPartition you
want to configure).
To access the EFI Shell, reboot or reset your system (or nPartition).
Interrupt the automatic boot process if necessary and use the up/down
arrow keys to highlight the “EFI Shell” menu item and hit Enter to
select it.
Step 2. In the EFI Shell environment use the boottest command to list, enable,
or disable boot-time system tests for your system (or nPartition).
To display the list of supported boot-time system tests, enter the
boottest -h command at the EFI Shell prompt:
Shell> boottest -h
Usage: BOOTTEST [on|off] | [[test] [on|off]]
test : early_cpu, late_cpu, platform, chipset,
io_hw, mem_init, mem_test
Shell>
You can enable or disable any of the boot-time system tests by specifying
the name of the test to as an argument to boottest.
In the following boottest command synopsis testname is one of the
following system tests:
• early_cpu