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

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).
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.
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
• late_cpu
• platform
• chipset
• io_hw
• mem_init
• mem_test
boottest Display the current boot-time system test
configuration
boottest testname Display the current setting for the specified test
(testname). For example: boottest
mem_test displays the memory self-test settings.
boottest on Enable all boot-time system tests. HP
recommends this but recognizes your needs may
require disabling some boot-time system tests.
boottest off Disable all boot-time system tests. Disabling all
self tests is usually not recommended.
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