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

Booting and Resetting Superdome Partitions
Procedures for Booting and Resetting Partitions
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Finding Bootable Devices
You can search for and find bootable devices for a partition by using the
BCH interface’s SEARCH command. This searches for all bootable
devices connected to any of the partition’s currently used cells.
Note that you cannot access any I/O connected to a partition’s unused
cells (those cells that are deconfigured for the current partition boot). As
a consequence, the BCH menu’s SEARCH command will not report any
devices connected to deconfigured cells.
BCH Use the following procedure to find and list the bootable devices that are
available to a partition.
To perform this task, access the partition’s BCH interface through the
partition’s console.
Step 1. Log in to the Superdome complex’s GSP and access the partition’s
console.
From the partition console you access the partition’s BCH interface to
search for bootable devices. If the partition is not at the BCH interface
you must either boot the partition or shut down HP-UX to return to the
BCH interface.
Step 2. From the BCH interface’s main menu, issue the SEARCH command to
find and list bootable devices in the partition.
When accessing the partition’s BCH interface, if you are not at the BCH
main menu then enter MA to return to the BCH main menu.
You can perform this task using the BCH interface.
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