HP Integrity rx2660

NOTE: In some versions of EFI, the Boot Configuration Menu is listed as the Boot Option
Maintenance Menu.
To manage the boot options list for each server, use the EFI Shell, the EFI Boot Configuration
Menu, or operating system utilities.
At the EFI Shell, the bcfg command supports listing and managing the boot options list for
all operating systems, except Microsoft Windows. On HP Integrity servers with Windows
installed, the \MSUtil\nvrboot.efi utility is provided for managing Windows boot
options from the EFI Shell. For HP Integrity servers with OpenVMS installed, the
\efi\vms\vms_bcfg.efi and \efi\vms\vms_show utilities are provided for managing
OpenVMS boot options.
The EFI Boot Configuration Menu provides the Add a Boot Option, Delete Boot Option(s),
and Change Boot Order menu items (use this method if you must add an EFI Shell entry
to the boot options list).
Operating system utilities for managing the boot options list include the HP-UX setboot
command, and the HP OpenVMS @SYS$MANAGER:BOOT_OPTIONS.COM command.
For details, see the following sections:
— Setting HP-UX boot options (see “Adding HP-UX to the Boot Options List” (page 89))
— Setting OpenVMS boot options (see “Adding OpenVMS to the Boot Options List”
(page 93))
— Setting Windows boot options (see “Adding Microsoft Windows to the Boot Options
List” (page 97))
— Setting Linux boot options (see “Adding Linux to the Boot Options List” (page 101))
• Autoboot Setting The autoboot setting determines, at startup, whether a server
automatically loads the first item in the boot options list, or remains at the EFI Boot Manager
menu. When autoboot is enabled, EFI loads the first item in the boot options list after a
designated timeout period.
Configure the autoboot setting for an HP Integrity server using either the autoboot EFI
Shell command, or the Set Auto Boot TimeOut menu item from the EFI Boot Configuration
Menu.
For example, from the EFI Shell to disable autoboot issue the autoboot off command.
To enable autoboot with the default timeout value issue the autoboot on command. To
enable autoboot with a timeout of 60 seconds issue the autoboot time 60 command.
Set autoboot from HP-UX using the setboot command. Enable autoboot from HP-UX
using the setboot -b on command. Disable autoboot using the setboot -b off
command.
Booting and Shutting Down HP-UX
This section covers booting and shutting down HP-UX on entry-class HP Integrity servers.
• To add an HP-UX entry to the boot options list, see “Adding HP-UX to the Boot Options
List”.
• To boot HP-UX, use the following procedures:
— “Standard HP-UX Booting” (page 89) describes the standard ways to boot HP-UX.
Typically this results in booting HP-UX in multi-user mode.
— “Booting HP-UX in Single-User Mode” (page 91) describes how to boot HP-UX in
single-user mode.
— “Booting HP-UX in LVM Maintenance Mode” (page 92) describes how to boot HP-UX
in Logical Volume Management (LVM) maintenance mode.
• To shut down the HP-UX operating system, see “Shutting Down HP-UX” (page 93).
88 Booting and Shutting Down the Operating System