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HP 9000 Server Booting This list describes system boot features on cell-based HP 9000 servers.

• The nPartition system boot environment is the Boot Console Handler (BCH).

• The autoboot process is configured using boot device paths (PRI, HAA, ALT) and path flags.

— PRI boot path: configured using the setboot -p... or parmodify -b... command.

— HAA boot path: configured using the setboot -h... or parmodify -s... command

— ALT boot path: configured using the setboot -a... or parmodify -t... command.

• The HP-UX B.11.11 OS loaders are ISL and hpux. Issue commands from the ISL> prompt.

Types of Booting and Resetting for nPartitions

HP cell-based servers provide two special types of reboot and reset for managing nPartitions:

performing a reboot for reconfig, and performing a shutdown for reconfig.

The following list summarizes all types of booting, rebooting, and resetting that are supported

for HP nPartition systems. See the “Reboot for Reconfig” and “Shutdown for Reconfig State”

items for a discussion of these nPartition-specific boot processes.

NOTE: You can perform the Windows shutdown tasks either by using the shutdown command

or by using the Start→Shut Down action.

• Reboot A reboot shuts down the operating system and reboots the nPartition. On HP 9000

systems, only the active cells in the nPartition are reset. On HP Integrity systems, all cells

are reset.

To perform a standard reboot of an nPartition use the HP-UX shutdown -r command, the

Windows shutdown /r command, the Linux shutdown -r time command, or the

OpenVMS: @SYS$SYSTEM:SHUTDOWN with an automatic system reboot.

• Halt A halt shuts down the operating system, halts all processing on the nPartition, and

does not reboot.

To halt the operating system use the HP-UX shutdown -h command.

To reboot an nPartition that was halted from HP-UX use the RS command from the service

processor Command menu.

Halting the system is supported only on HP 9000 servers. On HP Integrity servers the effect

of the shutdown -h command or its Windows and Linux equivalents is to perform a

shutdown for reconfig (see “Shutdown for Reconfig State” in this list). On HP OpenVMS

servers, shutting down without rebooting halts OpenVMS but does not perform a shutdown

for reconfig.

• Reset A reset resets the nPartition immediately. On HP 9000 systems, only the active cells

in the nPartition are reset. On HP Integrity systems all cells are reset.

You can reset an nPartition using the REBOOT command from the BCH interface, the reset

command from the EFI Shell, or the RS command from the service processor Command

menu.

The RS command does not check whether the specified nPartition is in use or running an

operating system—be certain to correctly specify the nPartition.

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