https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/boot-disk/m-p/3591137#M623448 Why slice no. is listed only in a boot disk of Itanium servers not in other disks?<BR /><BR />example:c0t0d0s1<BR /><BR />could any one explain.<BR /><BR />tar<BR />siva Wed, 27 Jul 2005 11:15:03 GMT mj_sivakumar 2005-07-27T11:15:03Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/boot-disk/m-p/3591137#M623448 Why slice no. is listed only in a boot disk of Itanium servers not in other disks?<BR /><BR />example:c0t0d0s1<BR /><BR />could any one explain.<BR /><BR />tar<BR />siva Wed, 27 Jul 2005 11:15:03 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/boot-disk/m-p/3591137#M623448 mj_sivakumar 2005-07-27T11:15:03Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/boot-disk/m-p/3591138#M623449 Hi Siva<BR /><BR /> As I remember Itanium servers reuires a EFI shell to start with.It no more uses the boot method of PA architecture.<BR /> <BR /> For which we reuire EFI shell as slice0<BR />and your physical disk as slice2<BR /><BR /> We always use slice2 for LVM purposes.<BR /><BR />Regards<BR />S.Arunkumar Wed, 27 Jul 2005 11:22:53 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/boot-disk/m-p/3591138#M623449 S.Arunkumar 2005-07-27T11:22:53Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/boot-disk/m-p/3591139#M623450 This is due to the way EFI works.<BR />It needs a boot shell (c0t6d0s1) and then an area set for HP-UX boot (c0t6d0s2)<BR /><BR />PARIC does not need this. Wed, 27 Jul 2005 11:37:33 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/boot-disk/m-p/3591139#M623450 melvyn burnard 2005-07-27T11:37:33Z