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

1 nPar0001
2 nPar0002
2:1 nPar0002:vPar0001
Q) Quit
Select partition number: 2:1
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Welcome to the Superdome 2 console
<use <Ctrl-b> to exit.>
Shell>
Alternatively, you can also use the CONNECT PARTITION command to connect to a partition.
connect partition 2
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Welcome to the Superdome 2 console
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Getting a Console using the GUI
To access the system console of a partition using the GUI, select the Remote Console tab, and then
click on the Remote Serial Console link.
Figure 21 Remote Console Tab (nPar)
Figure 22 Remote Console Tab (vPar)
UEFI I/O device connection solution
On platforms like Superdome 2, connecting all UEFI drivers to all the devices might take a very
long time to complete, and this level of device connection is typically not needed. Similar to the
sx2000 Superdome product, the default behavior on Superdome 2 does not force the connection
of all UEFI I/O drivers to all devices. UEFI Shell commands are provided to manually connect more
devices. Alternatively, the default device connection policy may be modified for all future boots
using the 'ioconfig' command at the UEFI Shell.
For Superdome 2, for a partition in a first boot scenario (a new partition or a partition whose
NVRAM was cleared) the ioconfig fast_init setting is ON, and UEFI loads and connects drivers
Booting to UEFI and preparing for Operating System installation 55