nPartition Administrator's Guide, Second Edition
Table 5-1 nPartition Boot and Reset Task Summaries (continued)
SummaryTask
• NOTE: Only supported on PA-RISC systems.
• BCH Menu: issue the BOOT command and reply y (for "yes") to the Do you wish
to stop at the ISL prompt question.
See “Booting to the HP-UX Initial System Loader (ISL)” (page 149).
“Booting to the HP-UX
Initial System Loader
(ISL)”
• NOTE: Only supported on HP Integrity servers.
• EFI Shell or EFI Boot Manager: start booting HP-UX and type any key to interrupt the
boot process, stopping it at the HP-UX Boot Loader prompt (HPUX>).
See “Booting to the HP-UX Loader (HPUX.EFI)” (page 150).
“Booting to the HP-UX
Loader (HPUX.EFI)”
• BCH Menu: boot to the Initial System Loader prompt (ISL>), and from ISL issue
HP-UX loader commands in the following form:
hpux command
For example: enter hpux ls to issue the ls command.
• EFI Shell or EFI Boot Manager: boot to the HP-UX Boot Loader prompt (HPUX>), and
issue HP-UX loader commands directly.
For example: enter ls to issue the ls command.
See “Using HP-UX Loader Commands” (page 151).
“Using HP-UX Loader
Commands”
• NOTE: Only supported on HP Integrity servers.
• EFI Shell or EFI Boot Manager: start booting Linux and type any key to interrupt the
boot process, stopping it at the ELILO Linux Loader prompt ("ELILO boot").
See “Booting to the Linux Loader (ELILO.EFI)” (page 152).
“Booting to the Linux
Loader (ELILO.EFI)”
• NOTE: Only supported on HP Integrity servers.
• EFI Shell or EFI Boot Manager: boot to the ELILO Linux Loader prompt ("ELILO
boot") and issue loader commands directly.
See “Using Linux Loader (ELILO) Commands” (page 154).
“Using Linux Loader
(ELILO) Commands”
• BCH Menu: PATH command.
• EFI Boot Manager: use Boot Option Maintenance operations to add or delete boot
options, or to change the order of items in the boot options list.
• EFI Shell: bcfg command for HP-UX options.
For example: bcfg boot dump to list all boot options, or help bcfg for details
setting and reordering boot options list items.
For Windows boot options, use the MSUtil\nvrboot.efi utility.
• HP-UX: /usr/sbin/setboot or /usr/sbin/parmodify command. On HP Integrity
systems, only the boot options list for the local nPartition may be displayed and
modified.
See “Configuring Boot Paths and Options” (page 155).
“Configuring Boot Paths
and Options”
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