Booting the Operating System
Booting and Shutting Down HP-UX
Appendix B
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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.
Refer to the following sections for details:
— Setting HP-UX boot options (refer to “Adding HP-UX to the Boot Options List” on page 150)
— Setting OpenVMS boot options (refer to “Adding HP OpenVMS to the Boot Options List” on page 155)
— Setting Windows boot options (refer to “Adding Microsoft Windows to the Boot Options List” on
page 159)
— Setting Linux boot options (refer to “Adding Linux to the Boot Options List” on page 163)
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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.
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To add an HP-UX entry to the boot options list, refer to “Adding HP-UX to the Boot Options List”.
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To boot HP-UX, use the following procedures:
— “Standard HP-UX Booting” on page 151 describes the standard ways to boot HP-UX. Typically this
results in booting HP-UX in multi-user mode.
— “Single-User Mode HP-UX Booting” on page 152 describes how to boot HP-UX in single-user mode.
— “LVM Maintenance Mode HP-UX Booting” on page 154 describes how to boot HP-UX in Logical
Volume Management (LVM) maintenance mode.
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To shut down the HP-UX operating system, refer to “Shutting Down HP-UX” on page 154.