HP Superdome 2 Partitioning Administrator Guide (5900-2540, December 2012)

Booting from the CLI
To activate a partition from the command line, you can either use the poweron partition
{identifier} command, the bo command, or the pe command.
poweron partition 2
Poweron request sent to partition 2. Operation initiated successfully.
Please run PARSTATUS/VPARSTATUS or SHOW SYSLOG OA to determine the completion
status of the operation.
After you power on the nPartition, the partition firmware is booted and comes up to the Active/EFI
state if the nPartition is in nPars mode or to Active/RUN_VPARS state if the nPartition is in vPars
mode.
parstatus -P
[Partition]
Par State/ Status* # of # of ILM/ Partition Name
Num RunState Blades IOBays SLM (first 15
(GB)** characters)
=== ======================= ======= ====== ====== ============= ===============
1 Inactive /DOWN OK 1 0 0.0/0.0 nPar0001
2 Active /RUN_VPARS OK 2 2 2.0/28.0 nPar0002
3 Active /EFI OK 1 2 2.0/28.0 hard_partition
4 Inactive /DOWN OK 0 0 0.0/0.0 nPar0004
5 Inactive /DOWN OK 0 0 0.0/0.0 nPar0005
* D-Degraded
** Actual allocated for Active and User requested for Inactive partitions
The bo command without arguments prompts you to select a partition to boot:
bo This command controls power enable to a partition.
Partition Partition
Number Name
--------- ---------
1 nPar0001
1:1 nPar0001:vPar1
1:2 nPar0001:vPar0002
1:3 nPar0001:we
1:5 nPar0001:vPar0005
1:21 nPar0001:vPar0021
2 nPar0002
2:1 nPar0002:vPar0001
3 hard_partition
4 nPar0004
5 nPar0005
Q) Quit
Select partition number:2:1
Poweron request sent to partition 2:1.
Operation initiated successfully.
Please run PARSTATUS/VPARSTATUS or SHOW SYSLOG OA
to determine the completion status of the operation.
The pe command also prompts you to select a partition:
pe
This command controls power enable to a partition.
Partition Partition
Number Name
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