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An Overview of nPartition Boot and Reset

Tools for Managing nPartition Booting

HP System Partitions Guide: Administration for nPartitions, rev 5.1

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ISL: Initial System Loader

Replying “y” (yes, do stop at ISL) allows you to interact directly with

a boot device’s Initial System Loader (ISL) and the Secondary

System Loader (hpux). Enter all ISL commands from the ISL>

prompt.

hpux: Secondary System Loader

From the ISL prompt you also can enter commands that are executed

by the Secondary System Loader (hpux). Preface your Secondary

System Loader command with hpux. For example: hpux ls /stand

to list the contents of the /stand directory on the booted device.

See the isl (1M) and hpux (1M) manpages for details.

• HP-UX utilities—Several HP-UX utilities allow you to check and

set a partition’s HP-UX boot options; check the boot settings of other

partitions in the server complex; and perform reboot, shutdown, and

reboot for reconﬁg tasks.

The reboot, shutdown, parmodify, parstatus, and setboot

commands provide these features. For details see the command

manpages.

The Partition Manager utility (/opt/parmgr/bin/parmgr) also

provides some boot conﬁguration capabilities; details are available in

its online help.