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64 Chapter 3:Installing Red Hat Linux
You can also choose whether you want to boot your system into a text or graphical environment once
Red Hat Linux is installed. Unless you have special needs, booting into a graphical environment
(similar to a Windows environment) is recommended. If you choose to boot into a text environment,
you will be presented with a command prompt (similar to a DOS environment).
3.24 Installation Complete
Congratulations! Your Red Hat Linux 7.2 installation is now complete!
The installation program will prompt you to prepare your system for reboot. Do not forget to remove
any diskette in the diskette drive or CD in the CD-ROM drive.
3.25 Booting Your Machine and Post-Installation
Setup
This section describes how to boot your Itanium into Red Hat Linux and how to set your EFI console
variables so that Red Hat Linux is automatically booted when the machine is powered on.
After you reboot your system at the end of the installation program, type the following command to
boot into Red Hat Linux:
Shell>elilo
After you type elilo, the default kernel listed in the /boot/efi/elilo.conf configuration file
is loaded. (The first kernel listed in the file is the default.)
If you want to load a different kernel, type the label name of the kernel from the file
/boot/efi/elilo.conf. after elilo. For example, to load the kernel named linux-up
for the uni-processor kernel, type
Shell>elilo linux-up
If you do not know the names of the installed kernels, you can view the /boot/efi/elilo.conf
file in EFI with the following instructions:
1. At the Shell> prompt, change devices to the system partition (mounted as /boot/efi in
Linux). For example, if fs0 is the system boot partition, type fs0: at the EFI Shell prompt.
2. Type ls at the fs0:\> to make sure you are in the correct partition.
3. Then type
Shell>type elilo.conf