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An Overview of nPartition Boot and Reset

Listing nPartition Boot Settings

HP System Partitions Guide: Administration for nPartitions, rev 5.1

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The setboot command also reports the “autoboot” and “autosearch”

settings for the PRI boot path. Combined, these two settings are

equivalent to the PRI path’s boot actions (its “path ﬂags” setting).

When autoboot is set to ON, the nPartition attempts to automatically

boot from the PRI boot path when it ﬁrst boots to BCH. Otherwise, when

autoboot is OFF, the nPartition remains at the BCH interface on startup.

When autosearch is set to ON, the nPartition will attempt to perform the

boot action for the HAA boot path if the PRI boot action is automatically

attempted and fails to boot (when autoboot is ON). When autosearch is

set to OFF, the nPartition remains at BCH if the PRI path is not

automatically booted on startup.

Refer to the section Conﬁguring Autoboot and Autostart on page 234 for

other details and procedures.

Listing nPartition Boot Settings [Partition Manager]

This procedure (Partition —> Show Partition Details action, General tab)

lists an nPartition’s boot paths from Partition Manager.

Step 1. Run Partition Manager (/opt/parmgr/bin/parmgr) or access it from

SAM or a Web browser.

Step 2. Select the nPartition whose boot path settings you want to view.

Partitions are listed on the left side of the Partition Manager primary

window.

Step 3. Select the Partition —> Show Partition Details action and view the boot path

settings in the General tab.

This displays the PRI, HAA, and ALT boot path values for the selected

nPartition.