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HP System Partitions Guide: Administration for nPartitions, rev 5.1 25
Procedures
Procedures for nPartition System Overviews
Accessing Superdome Compute Cabinet I/O Chassis
and PCI Slots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Accessing Superdome IOX I/O Chassis and PCI Card Slots . . . . . . . . . 52
Procedures for Planning nPartition Configurations
Selecting Cells for an nPartition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Procedures for Using Console and Service Processor Interfaces
Logging in to a Service Processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Configuring Service Processor Network Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Procedures for An Overview of nPartition Boot and Reset
Listing nPartition Boot Settings [BCH] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Listing nPartition Boot Settings [HP-UX]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Listing nPartition Boot Settings [Partition Manager]. . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Monitoring nPartition Boot Activity [Service Processor]. . . . . . . . . . . 186
Detecting if HP-UX is Running or Hanged on an nPartition . . . . . . . 188
Procedures for Booting and Resetting nPartitions
Accessing nPartition Console
and BCH Interfaces [Service Processor]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
Finding Bootable Devices [BCH]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Booting HP-UX on an nPartition [BCH]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
Booting an nPartition to ISL [BCH] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Booting HP-UX in Single-User or LVM-Maintenance Mode
[BCH, ISL, and hpux] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Booting from an HP-UX Install Source [BCH]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Shutting Down HP-UX on an nPartition [HP-UX] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
Rebooting or Resetting an nPartition [Service Processor]. . . . . . . . . . 215
Rebooting or Resetting an nPartition [BCH] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
Rebooting or Resetting an nPartition [HP-UX] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
Performing a Reboot for Reconfig [HP-UX] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
Holding an nPartition
at the Ready for Reconfig State [Service Processor] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Holding an nPartition at the Ready for Reconfig State [BCH] . . . . . . 222