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Booting and Resetting nPartitions

Rebooting or Resetting an nPartition

HP System Partitions Guide: Administration for nPartitions, rev 5.1

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Rebooting or Resetting an nPartition

When you perform a reboot or reset of an nPartition, all active cells in the

nPartition reboot and return to BCH or HP-UX. Any inactive cells in the

nPartition are not rebooted in this procedure.

You can reset and reboot an nPartition by using these procedures:

• Rebooting or Resetting an nPartition [Service Processor] on page 215

This procedure (service processor Command menu RS command)

resets an nPartition using the service processor.

• Rebooting or Resetting an nPartition [BCH] on page 216

This procedure (BCH interface REBOOT command) resets an

nPartition using the nPartition’s BCH interface.

• Rebooting or Resetting an nPartition [HP-UX] on page 216

This procedure (shutdown -r command) resets an nPartition from

HP-UX running on the nPartition.

NOTE If possible you should down HP-UX before resetting an nPartition.

HP’s nPartition servers also support other types of nPartition resetting.

See the following sections for details on these other nPartition reset

methods:

• Shutting Down HP-UX on an nPartition on page 212

• Performing a Reboot for Reconﬁg for an nPartition on page 218

• Holding an nPartition at the Ready for Reconﬁg State on page 219

• Performing a Transfer-of-Control (TOC) Reset of an nPartition on

page 224