Q:I would like to turn on hyperthreading for my system. How can I do this and can it be done on a running system? A:Hyperthreading is only available on certain models of Itanium systems. There are two steps: Step 1: Use setboot –m on...
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Ignite boot helper CD
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Ignite Boot Helper CD Q:I need an alternative to setting up a boot helper system on another subnet. How can I boot a system to be able to pull the Ignite image from another network? A: Starting with the C version of Ignite, a...
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Itanium boot from SAN fails
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Q: I have several older Itanium machines such as the rx6600 that are failing to reboot automatically. I have to run the EFI shell. Then manually run reconnect –r and map –r to find the boot paths. A: This has been a very annoying (and...
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Script For Reading HP-UX Itanium Root Disk EFI Partitions
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I called this script "readpartition" but you can call it anything you choose. The purpose of this script was to fill in a missing piece of the HP-UX 11.31 Itanium root disk mirroring procedure. The output of this script is designed to be the input...
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