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

Booting and Resetting Superdome Partitions

Overview of Partition Booting Concepts and Issues

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• Ready-for-Reconﬁg State—Shuts down a partition, performs any

partition reconﬁgurations, and keeps all cells at a boot-is-blocked

(BIB) “cell ﬁrmware” state, thus making the partition and all of its

cells inactive. When a partition is in a ready-for-reconﬁg state, you

can reconﬁgure (or remove) the partition from a remote partition.

All cells—including any inactive cells and all newly added or deleted

cells—reboot and are reconﬁgured, and all cells remain at BIB.

You can put a partition into a ready-for-reconﬁg state by using the

shutdown -R -H or reboot -R -H command, using the BCH

interface’s RECONFIGRESET command, or using the GSP command

menu’s RR command.

When rebooting a partition under normal circumstances (when not

reconﬁguring or halting the partition) use the shutdown -r or

reboot -r commands.

Superdome Booting Features

This section provides an overview of several new boot issues for

HP Superdome servers.

On HP Superdome servers each partition is booted, rebooted, shut down,

and reset individually.

In most cases you will boot and reboot Superdome partitions using the

same basic procedures that are used on other HP 9000 servers.

The following list describes several new issues related to booting,

rebooting, and power cycling partitions on HP Superdome servers:

• HP Superdome server resources (cells and I/O chassis) are conﬁgured

into one or more partitions, each of which can boot a single instance of

HP-UX. Each partition can boot and reboot independently of others.

• All of a partition’s cells and I/O chassis must be powered on and

active in order to contribute resources to the partition.

• You can perform all reset and power cycling tasks remotely.

Superdome server cabinets do not have TOC or reset switches.

Instead, you issue TOCs using a Guardian Service Processor (GSP)

command and issue resets using GSP commands or BCH interface

commands. Use caution when resetting or sending a TOC