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

Booting and Resetting Superdome Partitions
Overview of Partition Booting Concepts and Issues
Chapter 5230
Cell(s) Booting Late CPU self-test Processor test,
Cell firmware test,
Processor firmware
slave rendezvous
Cell(s) Booting I/O discovery I/O system bus
adapter
configuration,
I/O local bus adapter
configuration
Cell(s) Booting Remote fabric
initialization
Partition rendezvous
slave rendezvous
Memory
Interleave
Memory controller
configuration
Cell has joined
partition
At Boot Console
Handler (BCH)
Partition firmware Cell has joined
partition
ISL Menu Cell has joined
partition
HPUX Loader Init Cell has joined
partition
HPUX Launch Processor system
initialization
Cell has joined
partition
HPUX Launch Partition IPL
launch
configuration
Cell has joined
partition
HPUX Launch Processor
display_activity
update
Cell has joined
partition
HPUX init process
start
Cell has joined
partition
HPUX heartbeat Cell has joined
partition
Table 5-2 Superdome Partition and Cell Boot States and Activities
Partition State Partition Activity Cell States Cell Activities