User Service Guide, Third Edition - HP Integrity rx4640 Server

B Booting the Operating System
This chapter covers procedures for booting and shutting down an operating system on the HP
Integrity rx4640 server.
Operating Systems Supported on HP Integrity Servers
HP supports the following operating systems on entry-class HP Integrity servers.
• HP-UX 11i Version 2 (B.11.23)
For details, see “Booting and Shutting Down HP-UX” (page 118).
• HP OpenVMS I64
For details, see “Booting and Shutting Down HP OpenVMS” (page 123).
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003
For details, see “Booting and Shutting Down Microsoft Windows” (page 126).
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
For details, see “Booting and Shutting Down Linux”.
• SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10
For details, see “Booting and Shutting Down Linux” (page 129).
Configuring System 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 enables server configuration
through a maintenance menu.
EFI Boot Manager ver 1.10 [14.61] Please select a boot option
HP OpenVMS 8.2-1
EFI Shell [Built-in]
Windows Server 2003, Enterprise
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 server, 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
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.
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