May 2005
Intermediate to advanced
672 pages
13h 59m
English
Figure 1-1 This chapter covers booting an HP Integrity (Itanium-based) server and Chapter 2 covers HP 9000 (PA-RISC) server booting. Booting an Integrity server requires that you become familiar with two levels of firmware. The first level is HP's implementation of Intel's EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface), POSSE (Pre-OS System Environment). The second is HP's independent support processor for the system console, the Management Processor (MP), which is covered along with Node Partitions (nParitions) in Chapter 17. The MP is integral to booting both HP Integrity and HP 9000 servers. Although functionality varies from one platform to another, the topics in this chapter apply to all HP Integrity ...
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