Installation Guide, Second Edition - HP Integrity BL60p Server Blade

EFI Configuration Settings
Configuring EFI Boot Options
Appendix A
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Configuring EFI Boot Options
This section discusses the system boot options you can configure on entry-class HP Integrity servers,
including the boot options list and the autoboot setting for the server.
• Boot Options List
The boot options list is a list of loadable items available for you to choose from the EFI Boot Manager
menu. Ordinarily the boot options list includes the EFI Shell and one or more operating system loaders.
The following example includes boot options for HP OpenVMS, Microsoft Windows, HP-UX, and the EFI
Shell. The final item in the EFI Boot Manager menu, the Boot Configuration menu, is not a boot option.
The Boot Configuration menu allows system configuration through a maintenance menu.
EFI Boot Manager ver 1.10 [14.61] Please select a boot option
EFI Shell [Built-in]
HP-UX Primary Boot: 4/0/1/1/0.2.0
Boot Option Maintenance Menu
Use ^ and v to change option(s). Use Enter to select an option
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 system, 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 HP-UX.
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.
See the following sections for details:
— Setting HP-UX boot options (see “Adding HP-UX to the Boot Options List” on page 83)
• Autoboot Setting
The autoboot setting determines, at startup, whether a system 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 system 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.