HP-UX System Administrator's Guide: Routine Management Tasks

2 Booting and Shutdown

This chapter contains information on the following topics:

• “Booting Systems” (page 37)

— “Booting HP-UX on HP Integrity Servers: Details and Variations” (page 38)

— “Booting HP-UX on HP 9000 (PA-RISC) Systems: Details and Variations”

(page 57)

— “Speeding the Boot: SpeedyBoot” (page 70)

• “Customizing Start-up and Shutdown” (page 80)

• “Shutting Down Systems” (page 84)

— “Types of Shutdown” (page 85)

— “Special Considerations for Shutting Down Certain Systems” (page 90)

— “Avoiding a Shutdown When Possible” (page 92)

• “Configuring Dump Devices” (page 92)

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

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 38).

If you are booting a PA-RISC System see “Booting HP-UX on HP 9000 (PA-RISC)

Systems: Details and Variations” (page 57)

For additional information on booting nPartitions and Virtual Partitions, see the

nPartition Administrator's Guide and Installing and Managing HP-UX Virtual Partitions

(vpars).

New Mass Storage Stack for HP-UX 11i Version 3

HP-UX 11i v3 introduces a new representation of device special files and hardware

paths for mass storage devices, allowing to increase the reliability, adaptability,

performance, and scalability of the mass storage stack (see the Next Generation Mass

Storage Stack white paper for more details). The white paper is posted in the Network

and Systems Management section of the HP technical documentation website under

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