Comware Image Redundancy And Loading Procedure; System Startup Process - HP 10500 Series Configuration Manual

Comware image redundancy and loading procedure

You can specify two sets of Comware software images: one main and one backup.
The system always attempts to start up with the main images. If any main image does not exist or is
invalid, the system tries the backup images.
procedure.
This procedure assumes that the main image set and the backup image set have feature images and
patch images. If an image set has neither feature images nor patch images, the system starts up with the
main boot and system images after they pass verification.
If both of the main and backup boot images are invalid or unavailable, connect to the console port and
power cycle the device to access the Boot menu for loading a boot image. For more information about
downloading and loading a boot image, see the release notes for the software version.
Figure 35 Comware image loading procedure
Start
Main boot image exists
and valid?
Main system image
exists and valid?
All main feature
packages exist and
valid?
All patch packages exist
and valid?
Start up with the main images

System startup process

Upon power-on, the BootWare image runs to initialize hardware, and then the startup software images
run to start up the entire system, as shown in
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Backup boot image
Yes
No
Backup system image
Yes
No
All backup feature
packages exist and
Yes
No
packages exist and
Yes
Start up with the backup
Figure 35
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exists and valid?
Yes
No
exists and valid?
Yes
No
valid?
Yes
No
All backup patch
valid?
Yes
images
Figure 36.
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shows the entire Comware image loading
Start up from the BootWare
menus