
Task Summaries for nPartition Boot and Reset
Table 5-1
describes the main nPartition boot and reset tasks and provides brief summaries and
references for detailed procedures.
You can perform the nPartition boot tasks in
Table 5-1 “nPartition Boot and Reset Task
Summaries”
using various tools, including the service processor (MP or GSP), Boot Console
Handler (BCH, available only on PA-RISC servers), Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI, available
only on HP Integrity servers), HP-UX commands, or Partition Manager (
/opt/parmgr/bin/parmgr
).
See
“Tools for Booting nPartitions” (page 95)
for details.
Table 5-1 nPartition Boot and Reset Task Summaries
Summary
Task
This section has tips for resolving common nPartition boot issues.
See
“Troubleshooting Boot Problems” (page 100)
.
“Troubleshooting Boot
Problems”
Use the service processor Console Menu (
CO
) to access the BCH or EFI system boot
environment for an nPartition.
See
“Accessing nPartition Console and System Boot Interfaces” (page 101)
.
“Accessing nPartition
Console and System Boot
Interfaces”
Use the
VFP
option from the service processor Main Menu to access a Virtual Front Panel
for monitoring the boot status of an nPartition.
See
“Monitoring nPartition Boot Activity” (page 104)
.
“Monitoring nPartition
Boot Activity”
• BCH Menu:
SEARCH
command.
• EFI Shell:
map
command.
See
“Finding Bootable Devices” (page 106)
.
“Finding Bootable
Devices”
•
CAUTION:
Under normal operation you shut down the operating system before
issuing a TOC reset.
• Service Processor (MP or GSP):
TC
command.
See
“Performing a Transfer of Control Reset” (page 107)
.
“Performing a Transfer
of Control Reset”
• BCH Menu:
BOOT
command.
• EFI Boot Manager: select an item from the boot options list.
• EFI Shell: access the EFI System Partition (for example
fs0:
) for a root device and
enter
HPUX
to invoke the loader.
See
“Booting HP-UX” (page 110)
. This section also covers booting HP-UX in single-user
mode and LVM-maintenance mode.
“Booting HP-UX”
• Issue the
/sbin/shutdown
command with the desired options, such as
-r
to shut
down and reboot automatically, or
-h
to shut down and halt the system.
• The
-R
and
-H
options to
shutdown
and
reboot
are used when performing nPartition
reconfigurations; see the Reboot for Reconfig and Shutdown for Reconfig details in
this table.
See
“Shutting Down HP-UX” (page 117)
.
“Shutting Down HP-UX”
•
NOTE:
Only supported on HP Integrity servers.
• EFI Boot Manager: select an item from the boot options list.
• EFI Shell: access the EFI System Partition (for example
fs0:
) for a root device and
enter
vms_loader
to invoke the loader.
See
“Booting HP OpenVMS” (page 122)
.
“Booting HP OpenVMS”
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Booting and Resetting nPartitions