HP rp7405 nPartition Administrator's Guide, Second Edition - Page 91

its cells to boot past BIB, rendezvous, and boot to the system boot environment (BCH or EFI) and, if configured, automatically boot an operating system. - For an nPartition whose cells have been powered off, use the PE command to power on the nPartition hardware. • TOC: Transfer-of-Control Reset When you initiate a transfer-of-control reset, the service processor immediately performs a TOC reset of the specified nPartition, which resets the nPartition and allows a crash dump to be saved. If crash dump is configured for an OS on an nPartition, then when you TOC the nPartition while it is running the OS, the nPartition performs a crash dump and lets you select the type of dump. To perform a TOC reset, use the TC command from the service processor Command menu. HP nPartition systems do not have TOC buttons on the server cabinet hardware. From the Windows SAC, you can initiate a crash dump by issuing the crashdump command at the SAC> prompt From HP OpenVMS I64, you can cause OpenVMS to dump system memory and then halt at the P00>> prompt by issuing the RUN SYS$SYSTEM:OPCRASH command. To reset the nPartition following OPCRASH, access the nPartition console and press any key to reboot. System Boot Configuration Options This section briefly discusses the system boot options you can configure on cell-based servers. You can configure boot options that are specific to each nPartition in the server complex. HP 9000 Boot Configuration Options On cell-based HP 9000 servers the configurable system boot options include boot device paths (PRI, HAA, and ALT) and the autoboot setting for the nPartition. To set these options from HP-UX, use the setboot command. From the BCH system boot environment, use the PATH command at the BCH Main menu to set boot device paths, and use the PATHFLAGS command at the BCH Configuration menu to set autoboot options. For details issue HELP command at the appropriate BCH menu, where command is the command for which you want help. HP Integrity Boot Configuration Options On cell-based HP Integrity servers you must properly specify the ACPI configuration value, which affects the OS startup process and on some servers can affect the shutdown behavior. You also can configure boot device paths and the autoboot setting for the nPartition. Details are given in the following list. • Boot Options List The boot options list is a list of loadable items available for you to select from the EFI Boot Manager menu. Ordinarily the boot options list includes the EFI Shell and one or more operating system loaders. The following example includes boot options for HP OpenVMS, Microsoft Windows, HP-UX, and the EFI Shell. The final item in the EFI Boot Manager menu, the Boot Configuration menu, is not a boot option. The Boot Configuration menu allows system configuration through a maintenance menu. EFI Boot Manager ver 1.10 [14.61] Please select a boot option HP OpenVMS 8.2-1 EFI Shell [Built-in] Windows Server 2003, Enterprise HP-UX Primary Boot: 4/0/1/1/0.2.0 Boot Option Maintenance Menu Use ^ and v to change option(s). Use Enter to select an option Overview of nPartition System Booting 91