> (1)  It takes around 30 minutes to reboot an Emerald on the best of days.
> It is
>      one of the slowest beasts in the HP firmament.
 
Whoever wrote all that selftest garbage that the Emeralds go through clearly
wanted the system to be impressive to current mainframe users :-)
 
I was told once that there is something you can do (in debug I presume)
that will prevent the system from going through the 20 minute selftest
process the next time the system is booted.  Unfortunately this also
prevents taking a memory dump.  You might want to ask your CE (or
perhaps someone on the list knows) how to do this.
 
G.