We have already done a lot of work on our system in previous chapters to load and configure HP-UX 11i and Virtual Partitions (vPars.) Now let's take a step back and examine the details of booting an HP 9000. After having loaded vPars onto a system there are some modifications in the boot process. Let's cover booting with vPars and then examine booting in general later in the chapter. First we'll cover booting after vPars have been installed on a system to see the impact that vPars have on the boot process. And then in the non-vPars-specific portion of this chapter you'll get an overview of: the low-level boot and configuration of an HP 9000; setting up HP Secure Web Console; and configuring the Guardian Service Processor (GSP).
Most of the systems used in the examples in this chapter for both the vPars-specific and non-vPars-specific sections are L-Class systems. I intentionally used a simple system so that we could concentrate on the boot process with a minimum amount of hardware-related messages. Since booting varies from system to system, even within the HP 9000 family, this is not a comprehensive study, but rather, an overview.
