HP BA322 90087 - Manual (Page 8)

B Configuring OpenVMS Integrity servers Hardware Operation and Boot
Operations, and Booting and Shutting Down Your System......................................187
B.1 Configuration and Management Utilities for HP Integrity servers .............................................187
B.1.1 Overview of Utilities and Console Options..........................................................................188
B.1.2 Configuration and Management Utilities on Cell-Based Servers.........................................190
B.1.3 Using the Delete or Backspace Key with Integrity server Utilities.......................................190
B.2 Selecting Your OpenVMS Console for the Integrity servers System............................................191
B.2.1 Selecting Your OpenVMS Console (Not Applicable to rx2600 Integrity servers)................193
B.2.1.1 Using the EFI Boot Manager to Select the OpenVMS Console.....................................193
B.2.1.2 Using the EFI Shell to Select the OpenVMS Console....................................................195
B.2.2 Selecting Your OpenVMS Console on rx2600 Integrity servers............................................196
B.3 Overview of Using EFI..................................................................................................................200
B.3.1 General Notes About Using EFI...........................................................................................201
B.4 Enabling or Disabling Hyper-Threading on Dual-Core Processors.............................................203
B.5 Configuring and Managing OpenVMS Booting on Integrity servers ..........................................203
B.5.1 Checking the ACPI Configuration for Booting OpenVMS in an nPartition.........................204
B.5.2 Setting Boot Options for Your System Disk..........................................................................205
B.5.2.1 Adding a Boot Option and Setting Boot Flags .............................................................205
B.5.2.1.1 Using EFI to Set Automatic Booting of Your System Disk...................................207
B.5.2.2 Displaying EFI Boot Entries and Mapped OpenVMS Devices.....................................208
B.5.2.3 Setting EFI Boot Option Countdown Timer (Timeout)................................................208
B.5.2.4 Saving and Restoring EFI Settings................................................................................208
B.5.3 Writing a New Boot Block.....................................................................................................209
B.5.4 Alpha and Equivalent Integrity servers System Boot Commands.......................................211
B.6 Booting Operations.......................................................................................................................211
B.6.1 Overview of Booting on a Cell-Based Server .......................................................................212
B.6.1.1 Booting the nPartition Hardware..................................................................................212
B.6.1.2 Booting OpenVMS Integrity servers on an nPartition..................................................213
B.6.2 Booting the OpenVMS Integrity servers OE DVD from the Local Drive.............................213
B.6.2.1 Alternate Method of Using EFI to Boot the DVD.........................................................214
B.6.3 Booting the OpenVMS Integrity servers OE DVD from the InfoServer...............................217
B.6.4 Booting an Image of the OpenVMS Integrity servers OE DVD Using HP SIM
Provisioning...................................................................................................................................217
B.6.5 Booting an Image of the OpenVMS Integrity servers OE DVD Using vMedia....................217
B.6.6 Booting from a Fibre Channel Device...................................................................................217
B.6.7 Booting Manually from the Local System Disk....................................................................217
B.6.8 Performing a Conversational (Interactive) Boot...................................................................218
B.6.9 Booting with Minimum Startup............................................................................................219
B.6.10 Booting with the XDelta Utility (XDELTA).........................................................................219
B.6.11 Booting from a Different Root Directory............................................................................220
B.6.12 Emergency Booting.............................................................................................................220
B.6.12.1 Booting with Default System Parameters...................................................................220
B.6.12.2 Booting Without Startup and Login Procedures........................................................221
B.6.12.3 Booting Without a User Authorization File................................................................222
B.7 Halt and Shutdown Procedures....................................................................................................223
B.7.1 Halting the Integrity servers to Recover from Hangs and Crashes......................................223
B.7.2 Shutting Down the System...................................................................................................224
B.7.2.1 Orderly Shutdown........................................................................................................224
B.7.2.2 Emergency Shutdown with OPCCRASH.EXE.............................................................225
B.8 Troubleshooting Procedures.........................................................................................................225
B.8.1 If the System Does Not Boot.................................................................................................225
B.8.1.1 For Hardware Problems................................................................................................225
B.8.1.2 For Software Problems..................................................................................................225
B.8.2 Detecting and Responding to System Problems...................................................................225
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