nPartition Administrator's Guide, Second Edition

Task Summaries for nPartition Boot and Reset
Table 5-1 describes the main nPartition boot and reset tasks and provides brief summaries and
references for detailed procedures.
You can perform the nPartition boot tasks in Table 5-1 “nPartition Boot and Reset Task
Summaries” using various tools, including the service processor (MP or GSP), Boot Console
Handler (BCH, available only on PA-RISC servers), Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI, available
only on HP Integrity servers), HP-UX commands, or Partition Manager (
/opt/parmgr/bin/parmgr).
See “Tools for Booting nPartitions” (page 95) for details.
Table 5-1 nPartition Boot and Reset Task Summaries
SummaryTask
This section has tips for resolving common nPartition boot issues.
See “Troubleshooting Boot Problems” (page 100).
“Troubleshooting Boot
Problems”
Use the service processor Console Menu (CO) to access the BCH or EFI system boot
environment for an nPartition.
See “Accessing nPartition Console and System Boot Interfaces” (page 101).
“Accessing nPartition
Console and System Boot
Interfaces”
Use the VFP option from the service processor Main Menu to access a Virtual Front Panel
for monitoring the boot status of an nPartition.
See “Monitoring nPartition Boot Activity” (page 104).
“Monitoring nPartition
Boot Activity”
• BCH Menu: SEARCH command.
• EFI Shell: map command.
See “Finding Bootable Devices” (page 106).
“Finding Bootable
Devices”
• CAUTION: Under normal operation you shut down the operating system before
issuing a TOC reset.
• Service Processor (MP or GSP): TC command.
See “Performing a Transfer of Control Reset” (page 107).
“Performing a Transfer
of Control Reset”
• BCH Menu: BOOT command.
• EFI Boot Manager: select an item from the boot options list.
• EFI Shell: access the EFI System Partition (for example fs0:) for a root device and
enter HPUX to invoke the loader.
See “Booting HP-UX” (page 110). This section also covers booting HP-UX in single-user
mode and LVM-maintenance mode.
“Booting HP-UX”
• Issue the /sbin/shutdown command with the desired options, such as -r to shut
down and reboot automatically, or -h to shut down and halt the system.
• The -R and -H options to shutdown and reboot are used when performing nPartition
reconfigurations; see the Reboot for Reconfig and Shutdown for Reconfig details in
this table.
See “Shutting Down HP-UX” (page 117).
“Shutting Down HP-UX”
• NOTE: Only supported on HP Integrity servers.
• EFI Boot Manager: select an item from the boot options list.
• EFI Shell: access the EFI System Partition (for example fs0:) for a root device and
enter vms_loader to invoke the loader.
See “Booting HP OpenVMS” (page 122).
“Booting HP OpenVMS”
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