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An Overview of nPartition Boot and Reset
Boot States and Activities for nPartitions and Cells
HP System Partitions Guide: Administration for nPartitions, rev 5.1 195
Inactive cells remain at a “Boot Is Blocked (BIB)” state following I/O
discovery and do not participate in partition rendezvous.
Table 4-4 HP nPartition and Cell Boot States and Activities
Partition State Partition Activity Cell States Cell Activities
Cell(s) Booting Booting Cell firmware
configuration,
Cell firmware test,
Cell PDH controller
configuration
Cell(s) Booting Early CPU self-test Processor test,
Cell firmware test,
Processor firmware
slave rendezvous
Cell(s) Booting Memory discovery Physical memory test
Cell(s) Booting Late CPU self-test Processor test,
Cell firmware test,
Processor firmware
slave rendezvous
Cell(s) Booting I/O discovery I/O system bus
adapter
configuration,
I/O local bus adapter
configuration
Cell(s) Booting Remote fabric
initialization
Partition rendezvous
slave rendezvous
Memory
Interleave
Memory controller
configuration
Cell has joined
partition
At Boot Console
Handler (BCH)
Partition firmware Cell has joined
partition
ISL Menu Cell has joined
partition
HPUX Loader Init Cell has joined
partition