Installation Guide, Second Edition - HP Integrity BL60p Server Blade

Chapter 8

Installing and Booting the Operating System

Operating System Boot and Shutdown

From the EFI Boot Manager menu, choose the

EFI Shell menu option to access the EFI Shell

environment.

Step 2. Access the EFI System Partition (fs

: where

is the file system number) for the device from which

you want to boot HP-UX.

Step 3. When accessing the EFI System Partition for the desired boot device, issue the HPUX command to

initiate the \EFI\HPUX\HPUX.EFI loader on the device you are accessing.

Step 4. Type any key within the 10 seconds given for interrupting the HP-UX boot process. This stops the

boot process at the HPUX.EFI interface (the HP-UX Boot Loader prompt, HPUX>).

Step 5. At the HPUX.EFI interface, enter the boot -lm vmunix command to boot HP-UX (the

/stand/vmunix kernel) in LVM-maintenance (-lm) mode.

Step 6. Exit the console and MP interfaces when finished using them.

Press

^B (Control-B) to exit the system console and return to the MP Main Menu. To exit the MP,

type X at the Main Menu.

Shutting Down HP-UX

To shut down HP-UX running on a system, use the shutdown command. You have the following options when

shutting down HP-UX:

• To shut down and reboot an HP-UX system, use the shutdown -r command.

• To shut down and halt (power off) an HP-UX system, use the shutdown -h command.

For details, see the Shutdown (1M) manpage and the following procedure:

Shutting Down HP-UX (/sbin/shutdown Command)

From the HP-UX command line, issue the shutdown command to shut down the HP-UX operating

system.

Step 1. Log in to HP-UX running on the system that you want to shut down.

You should log in to the MP for the server and use the Console menu to access the system console.

Accessing the console through the MP enables you to maintain console access to the system after

HP-UX has shut down.

Step 2. Issue the shutdown command with the appropriate command-line options.

The command-line options you specify dictate the way in which HP-UX shuts down, and whether

the system is rebooted.

Use the following list to choose an HP-UX shutdown option for your system:

• To shut down HP-UX and halt (power off) the system, issue the shutdown -h command.

To reboot a halted system you must power on the system using the PC command at the MP

Command menu.

• To shut down HP-UX and reboot the system, issue the shutdown -r command.