Types Of Booting And Resetting For Npartitions - HP Rp7410 - Server - 0 MB RAM Administrator's Manual

HP 9000 Server Booting
• The nPartition system boot environment is the Boot Console Handler (BCH).
• The autoboot process is configured using boot device paths (PRI, HAA, ALT) and path flags.
— PRI boot path: configured using the setboot -p... or parmodify -b... command.
— HAA boot path: configured using the setboot -h... or parmodify -s... command
— ALT boot path: configured using the setboot -a... or parmodify -t... command.
• The HP-UX B.11.11 OS loaders are ISL and hpux. Issue commands from the ISL> prompt.

Types of Booting and Resetting for nPartitions

HP cell-based servers provide two special types of reboot and reset for managing nPartitions:
performing a reboot for reconfig, and performing a shutdown for reconfig.
The following list summarizes all types of booting, rebooting, and resetting that are supported
for HP nPartition systems. See the
items for a discussion of these nPartition-specific boot processes.
NOTE:
You can perform the Windows shutdown tasks either by using the shutdown command
or by using the Start Shut Down action.
Reboot
•
systems, only the active cells in the nPartition are reset. On HP Integrity systems, all cells
are reset.
To perform a standard reboot of an nPartition use the HP-UX shutdown -r command, the
Windows shutdown /r command, the Linux shutdown -r time command, or the
OpenVMS: @SYS$SYSTEM:SHUTDOWN with an automatic system reboot.
Halt
• A halt shuts down the operating system, halts all processing on the nPartition, and
does not reboot.
To halt the operating system use the HP-UX shutdown -h command.
To reboot an nPartition that was halted from HP-UX use the RS command from the service
processor Command menu.
Halting the system is supported only on HP 9000 servers. On HP Integrity servers the effect
of the shutdown -h command or its Windows and Linux equivalents is to perform a
shutdown for reconfig (see
servers, shutting down without rebooting halts OpenVMS but does not perform a shutdown
for reconfig.
Reset
• A reset resets the nPartition immediately. On HP 9000 systems, only the active cells
in the nPartition are reset. On HP Integrity systems all cells are reset.
You can reset an nPartition using the REBOOT command from the BCH interface, the reset
command from the EFI Shell, or the RS command from the service processor Command
menu.
The RS command does not check whether the specified nPartition is in use or running an
operating system—be certain to correctly specify the nPartition.
This list describes system boot features on cell-based HP 9000 servers.
"Reboot for Reconfig"
A reboot shuts down the operating system and reboots the nPartition. On HP 9000
"Shutdown for Reconfig State"
and "Shutdown for Reconfig State"
in this list). On HP OpenVMS
Overview of nPartition System Booting 89