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Booting and Resetting nPartitions

Booting an Inactive nPartition past Boot-Is-Blocked (BIB)

HP System Partitions Guide: Administration for nPartitions, rev 5.1

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Step 2. From the Command menu, enter the BO command and specify which

nPartition is to be booted (released from boot-is-blocked).

As a result of the BO command, the complex’s service processor releases

the selected nPartition’s cells from boot-is-blocked: the cells proceed to

rendezvous to form an active nPartition, which no longer is in the

ready for reconﬁg state.

GSP:CM> BO

This command boots the selected partition.

# Name

--- ----

0) jules00

1) jules01

Select a partition number: 0

Do you want to boot partition number 0? (Y/[N]) y

-> The selected partition will be booted.

GSP:CM>

Any of the nPartition’s cells that are not conﬁgured (those with a “n”

use-on-next-boot value) remain inactive at boot-is-blocked.

When the nPartition becomes active it proceeds through the normal boot

process and performs, as necessary, the boot action set for each of the

boot paths (PRI, HAA, ALT).