Windows nPartition Guide v5.5
Table Of Contents
- nPartition Administrator's Guide
- Table of Contents
- 1 Introduction
- Quick Start
- Getting to know nPartitions
- Choosing a management tool
- Management interface options
- Choosing a management mode
- Setting up the management station
- Performing nPartition management tasks
- 2 Installing nPartition Management Utilities
- 3 Using Partition Manager
- 4 Using Other Tools to Manage nPartitions
- Complex-level tasks
- nPartition-level tasks
- Boot configuration options for nPartition systems
- Find bootable devices
- List nPartition configurations
- List the local (current) nPartition number
- List memory configurations
- Configure boot paths and options
- Configure autoboot options
- Configure boot-time system tests
- Boot Windows Server 2003
- Boot over a network
- Shut down Windows Server 2003
- Reboot and reset
- Reboot for reconfiguration
- Shut down to a shutdown for reconfig (inactive) state
- Boot an inactive nPartition
- Perform a transfer of control reset
- Create a Genesis Partition
- Create a new nPartition
- Remove (delete) an nPartition
- Add cells to an nPartition
- Set core cell choices
- Rename an nPartition
- Cell-level tasks
- Power-, status-, and hardware-level tasks
- List input/output (I/O) configurations
- List cabinets in a server complex
- List power status and power supplies
- List fan and blower status
- Turn attention indicators (LEDs) on and off
- Power server cabinets on and off
- Power cells and I/O chassis on and off
- Configure and deconfigure cells
- Configure and deconfigure processors (CPUs)
- Configure and deconfigure memory (DIMMs)
- 5 nPartition Commands Reference
- 6 Troubleshooting
- Installation problems
- Checking component installation and operation
- Operational problems
- All commands: ordinal not found
- All commands: required data unavailable or locked
- Fruled: LED error messages (mid-range servers only)
- Frupower: cannot power off error
- Parcreate and parmodify: cell local memory warnings
- Parcreate, parmodify, and parremove: failure to update stable complex configuration data (SCCD)
- Parremove: shutdown and reset instructions
- Parstatus -c -V: apparent incorrect output
- Parstatus -p -V: apparent incorrect output
- Parstatus: local partition error
- Parstatus: unable to get read lock error
- Using WMIOP.EXE to pinpoint problems
- Error messages and corrective actions
- Index
1. Access the EFI Boot Manager menu for the system on which you want to boot Windows:
a. Log in to the MP and enter CO to access the Console list.
b. Select the nPartition console.
c. Confirm that you are at the EFI Boot Manager menu (the main EFI menu).
If you are at another EFI menu, select Exit from the submenus until you return to the
screen with the EFI Boot Manager heading.
2. At the EFI Boot Manager menu, select an item from the boot options list.
Each item in the boot options list references a specific boot device and provides a specific
set of boot options or arguments to be used when booting the device.
3. Press Enter to initiate booting using the selected boot option.
4. When Windows begins loading, wait for the Special Administration Console (SAC) to become
available.
The SAC interface provides a text-based administration tool that is available from the
nPartition console. For details see the SAC online help (enter ? at the SAC> prompt).
Loading.: Windows Server 2003, Datacenter
Starting: Windows Server 2003, Datacenter
Starting Windows...
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Computer is booting, SAC started and initialized.
Use the "ch -?" command for information about using channels.
Use the "?" command for general help.
SAC>
5. Exit the console and MP interfaces when you are finished using them:
a. To exit the console environment press ^B (Control-B). This exits the console and returns
you to the management processor Main menu.
b. To exit the MP, enter X at the Main Menu.
Boot over a network
Boot over a network by using one of the following procedures.
Procedure 4-16 Booting over a network [EFI Boot Manager]
Boot from a network device from the EFI Boot Manager as follows:
1. Access the EFI Boot Manager menu for the nPartition that you want to boot over a network.
a. Log in to the MP and enter CO to access the Console list.
b. Select the nPartition console.
c. Confirm that you are at the EFI Boot Manager menu (the main EFI menu).
If you are at another EFI menu, select Exit from the submenus until you return to the
screen with the EFI Boot Manager heading.
2. At the EFI Boot Manager menu, select Boot option maintenance menu.
3. At the Boot Options Maintenance menu, select Boot from a File.
4. Select the network card whose MAC address you want to use when booting, then press
Enter to initiate booting using the selected card.
EFI Boot Maintenance Manager ver 1.10 [14.60]
Boot From a File. Select a Volume
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