Windows Integrity nPartition Guide

Using Other Tools for Managing nPartitions

nPartition-level tasks

Chapter 4

GSP:CM> RR

This command resets for reconfiguration the selected partition.

WARNING: Execution of this command irrecoverably halts all system

processing and I/O activity and restarts the selected

partition in a way that it can be reconfigured.

# Name

--- ----

0) jules00

1) jules01

Select a partition number: 1

Do you want to reset for reconfiguration partition number 1? (Y/[N]) y

-> The selected partition will be reset for reconfiguration.

GSP:CM>

If you are accessing the management processor using a single-partition-user account, the

RR command selects which nPartition is to be reset: the nPartition that your account

allows you to access.

If using an operator or administrator account, you can select which nPartition in the

server complex you want to reset.

Step 3. To exit the management processor Command Menu, enter MA to return to the

management processor Main Menu.

At the Main Menu, enter X to exit the management processor interface.

Shutting down to shutdown for reconfig [EFI shell]

From the EFI Shell environment issue the reconfigreset command to shut an

nPartition down to a shutdown for reconfig (inactive) state.

Step 1. Access the EFI Shell environment for the nPartition that you want to shut down to a

shutdown for reconfig (inactive) state.

nPartition console.

When accessing the console, confirm that you are at the EFI Boot Manager menu (the

main EFI menu). If at another EFI menu, select the

Exit option from the sub-menus until

you return to the screen with the EFI Boot Manager heading.

From the EFI Boot Manager menu, select the

EFI Shell menu option to access the EFI

Shell environment.

Step 2. At the EFI Shell environment, issue the reconfigreset command to reset the local

nPartition to a shutdown for reconfig state.

The reconfigreset command resets all cells in the nPartition, performs any nPartition

reconfigurations, and halts all cells at a boot-is-blocked state, thus making the

nPartition and all its cells inactive.

Step 3. Exit the console and management processor interfaces if finished using them.