Managing Superdome Complexes: A Guide for HP-UX System Administrators

Booting and Resetting Superdome Partitions
Introduction to Boot and Reset Tasks
Chapter 5 223
“Booting HP-UX in
Single-User or
LVM-Maintenance Mode”on
page 254
Boot HP-UX on a partition, but boot in
single-user or LVM-maintenance mode.
BCH
ISL and hpux
“Booting from an HP-UX
Installation Source” on
page 256
Boot the partition from an HP-UX
installation source, in order to install
HP-UX on the partition.
BCH
“Booting a Partition to the
ISL Prompt” on page 257
Boot a partition to the ISL prompt.
Allows using ISL and the Secondary
System Loader (hpux) to further
manage the HP-UX boot process.
BCH
“ShuttingDown HP-UX on a
Partition” on page 258
Shut down the instance of HP-UX
running on a partition.
HP-UX:reboot,
shutdown
“Rebooting or Resetting a
Partition” on page 260
Either reboot HP-UX running on the
partition, or reset the partition
hardware from the BCH interface or the
GSP command menu.
GSP
BCH
HP-UX:reboot,
shutdown
“Performing a
Reboot-for-Reconfig for a
Partition” on page 263
Reboot a partition in order to modify its
partition settings or implement changes
to the partition.
HP-UX:reboot,
shutdown
“Resetting a Partition to a
Ready-for-ReconfigState”on
page 264
Reset the partition and leave it in a
ready-for-reconfig state in which all
cells remain at boot-is-blocked (BIB).
This makes the partition inactive.
GSP
BCH
HP-UX:reboot,
shutdown
“Performing a
Transfer-of-Control (TOC)
Reset of a Partition” on
page 267
Send a Transfer-of-Control (TOC) reset
to a partition, in order to reset and
perform a crash dump.
GSP
Table 5-1 HP Superdome Booting and Resetting Tasks
Task Procedures Description Tools