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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Rebooting or Resetting a Partition
You can reset a partition by using the GSP command menu, using the
partition’s BCH interface, or by issuing commands from HP-UX running
on the partition.
Using the procedures in this section, you can reset a partition and boot it
back to BCH or HP-UX.
HP Superdome servers also support other types of partition resetting.
For details on these other partition reset methods, see the following
sections:
• “Shutting Down HP-UX on a Partition” on page 258
• “Performing a Reboot-for-Reconfig for a Partition” on page 263
• “Resetting a Partition to a Ready-for-Reconfig State” on page 264
• “Performing a Transfer-of-Control (TOC) Reset of a Partition” on
page 267
You should, if possible, shut down HP-UX before resetting a partition.
GSP Use the following procedure to reset a partition using the GSP command
menu.
Step 1. Log in to the Superdome complex’s GSP and access the GSP command
menu.
After logging in to the GSP, enter CM to select the GSP command menu.
You can perform this task using the GSP command menu, the
BCH interface, or HP-UX commands.
• “GSP” on page 260
• “BCH” on page 261
• “HP-UX” on page 262
GSP login: Accountname
GSP password:
GSP> CM
Enter HE to get a list of available commands
GSP:CM>