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An Overview of nPartition Boot and Reset

Types of Booting and Resetting for nPartitions

HP System Partitions Guide: Administration for nPartitions, rev 5.1

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Types of Booting and Resetting

for nPartitions

All standard boot and reboot methods are supported for HP nPartition

servers, though some boot and reset procedures differ slightly or use

different tools than on other HP servers.

HP’s nPartition servers also provide two special types of reboot and reset

for managing nPartitions: performing a reboot for reconﬁg, and

resetting an nPartition to the ready for reconﬁg state.

The following list summarizes all types of booting, rebooting, and

resetting that are supported for HP nPartition systems. See the

Reboot for Reconﬁg and Ready for Reconﬁg State items for a discussion of

these nPartition-speciﬁc boot processes.

NOTE When rebooting HP-UX on an nPartition under normal

circumstances—such as when not reconﬁguring or halting it—use the

shutdown -r command.

• Reboot

A reboot shuts down HP-UX and reboots the nPartition.

Only the nPartition’s active cells are rebooted.

To perform a standard reboot of an nPartition use the shutdown -r

command.

• Halt

A halt shuts down HP-UX, halts all processing on the nPartition,

and does not reboot.

To perform this task use the shutdown -h command.

To reboot a halted nPartition use the service processor Command

menu’s RS command.