Chapter 5 Booting and Resetting nPartitions

This chapter introduces nPartition system boot and reset concepts, configuration options, and procedures for booting and resetting nPartitions.

This chapter covers boot details for HP-UX, HP OpenVMS I64, Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and the SuSE Linux Enterprise Server operating systems.

Differences in the nPartition boot process on PA-RISC systems and Intel® Itanium®-based systems also are addressed in this chapter.

	CAUTION: An nPartition on an HP Integrity server cannot boot HP-UX virtual partitions when in nPars boot mode. Likewise, an nPartition on an HP Integrity server cannot boot an operating system outside of a virtual partition when in vPars boot mode. For details, refer to “Boot Modes on HP Integrity nPartitions: nPars and vPars Modes”.

	NOTE: For details on boot and reset of nPartitions running vPars software, refer to Installing and Managing HP-UX Virtual Partitions (vPars).