Installation Guide, Third Edition - HP Integrity rx2620 (August 2006)

Booting the Operating System

Configuring System Boot Options

Chapter 9

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 systems with Windows installed, the

\MSUtil\nvrboot.efi utility is provided for managing Windows boot options from the EFI Shell. For HP

Integrity systems 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 82)

— Setting OpenVMS boot options (refer to “Adding HP OpenVMS to the Boot Options List” on page 88)

— Setting Windows boot options (refer to “Adding Microsoft Windows to the Boot Options List” on

page 92)

— Setting Linux boot options (refer to “Adding Linux to the Boot Options List” on page 96)

• 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.