Appendix A Operating System Boot and Shutdown

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This appendix covers procedures for booting an operating system (OS) on an nPartition (hardware partition) and procedures for shutting down the OS.

Operating Systems Supported on HP nPartition-capable Servers. HP supports nPartitions on HP 9000 servers and HP Integrity servers. The following list describes the operating systems supported on the different nPartition-capable models.

HP 9000 servers have PA-RISC processors and including the following nPartition-capable models:
- HP 9000 Superdome (SD16A, SD32A, and SD64A models)
- HP rp8420, rp8400
- HP rp7420, rp7405/rp7410
See “Booting HP-UX” for details on booting an OS on these servers.
These HP 9000 servers run HP-UX 11i Version 1 (B.11.11). These HP 9000 servers also run the September 2004 or later release of HP-UX 11i Version 2 (B.11.23). Releases of HP-UX B.11.23 prior to September 2004 do not support HP 9000 servers.
HP Integrity servers have Intel® Itanium® 2 processors and include the following nPartition-capable models:
- HP Integrity Superdome (SD16A, SD32A, and SD64A models)
- HP rx8620
- HP rx7620
These HP Integrity servers run the following OSes:
- HP-UX 11i Version 2 (B.11.23) — See “Booting HP-UX” for details.
- Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 — See “Booting the Microsoft Windows Operating System” for details.
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Update 2 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Update 3 — See for details.
- SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 — See for details.

Appendix A Operating System Boot and Shutdown

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