HP-UX System Administrator's Guide: Routine Management Tasks HP-UX 11i v3 (B3921-90023, September 2010)

2 Booting and Shutdown
This chapter contains information on the following topics:
• “Booting Systems” (page 35)
— “Booting HP-UX on HP Integrity Servers: Details and Variations” (page 36)
— “Booting HP-UX on HP 9000 (PA-RISC) Systems: Details and Variations”
(page 56)
— “Speeding the Boot: SpeedyBoot” (page 69)
• “Customizing Start-up and Shutdown” (page 79)
• “Shutting Down Systems” (page 82)
— “Types of Shutdown” (page 83)
— “Special Considerations for Shutting Down Certain Systems” (page 88)
— “Avoiding a Shutdown When Possible” (page 90)
• “Configuring Dump Devices” (page 90)
For an overview and more descriptive information of startup and shutdown, see HP-UX
System Administrator’s Guide: Overview.
Booting Systems
The HP-UX operating system currently runs on two different hardware platforms:
• HP 9000 Systems — PA-RISC processor family
• HP Integrity Servers — Itanium processor family, including the HP Integrity
server blades, HP Integrity Superdome, and HP Integrity Superdome 2.
An HP Integrity Server uses the Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI). If your system
displays the EFI boot manager following the initial firmware test results, then you are
booting an HP Integrity Server.
If you are booting an HP Integrity Server see “Booting HP-UX on HP Integrity Servers:
Details and Variations” (page 36).
If you are booting a PA-RISC System see “Booting HP-UX on HP 9000 (PA-RISC)
Systems: Details and Variations” (page 56)
For additional information about booting nPartitions and Virtual Partitions, see the
nPartition Administrator's Guide and HP-UX Virtual Partitions Administrator's Guide.
Mass Storage Stack for HP-UX 11i Version 3
HP-UX 11i v3 provides a representation of device special files and hardware paths for
mass storage devices, that increases the reliability, adaptability, performance, and
scalability of the mass storage stack. The mass storage stack manages I/O devices, such
as SCSI logical units (LUNs).
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