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Booting and Resetting nPartitions
Configuring Autoboot and Autostart
HP System Partitions Guide: Administration for nPartitions, rev 5.1 234
Configuring Autoboot and Autostart
The Autoboot setting specifies whether an nPartition automatically
boots HP-UX. You can configure each nPartition’s Autoboot setting by
modifying the nPartition’s boot actions for its boot paths. See the
Autoboot Configuration section.
On HP Superdome servers only, you can configure an Autostart setting
for each nPartition to specify the nPartition’s boot behavior when one or
more self tests fails. See the Autostart Configuration section that follows.
Autoboot Configuration
Each nPartition’s Autoboot setting is established by a combination of its
boot path variable settings and the settings for each path’s boot actions
(determined by its path flags).
You can use the BCH Main menu’s PATH command and the BCH
Configuration menu’s PATHFLAGS command to set boot paths and boot
actions for an nPartition. You also can use the parmodify and setboot
HP-UX commands to configure some of the boot path and action settings.
See Configuring Boot Paths and Boot Actions on page 228 for details on
configuring these settings to enable Autoboot.
Autostart Configuration
On HP Superdome servers only, the BCH interface’s Autostart setting for
each nPartition determines the boot behavior when one of the
nPartition’s components (processors or memory) fails self test.
By default Autostart is set to OFF, and the nPartition stops at the BCH
interface when a processor or DIMM fails self-test.
When Autostart is ON, the nPartition proceeds with the normal boot
process and performs the boot actions for its boot paths as necessary.
Configuring Superdome nPartition Autostart [BCH]
This procedure (BCH Configuration menu, AU command) configures
Autostart for an nPartition on an HP Superdome server.