
Booting and Shutting Down HPE OpenVMS
This section describes the procedures for booting and shutting down OpenVMS on entry class
Integrity servers, and procedures for adding OpenVMS to the boot options list.
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To add an OpenVMS entry to the boot options list, see
“Adding HPE OpenVMS to the Boot
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To boot OpenVMS on an entry class Integrity server, see
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To shut down OpenVMS, see
“Shutting Down HPE OpenVMS” (page 126)
Adding HPE OpenVMS to the Boot Options List
On Integrity servers, you can use the following procedures to manage boot options list entries
for OpenVMS.
You can add the
\efi\vms\vms_loader.efi
loader to the boot options list from the EFI Shell
or the EFI Boot Configuration menu (or in some versions of EFI, the Boot Option Maintenance
Menu).
NOTE:
The operating system installer automatically adds an entry to the boot options list.
To add an OpenVMS item to the boot options list from the EFI Shell, follow these steps:
1.
Access the EFI Shell environment.
a. Log in to the iLO 2 MP and enter
CO
to access the system console.
b. Confirm that you are at the EFI Boot Manager menu (the main EFI menu). If you are at
another EFI menu, select the
Exit
from the submenus until you return to the screen with the
EFI Boot Manager
heading.
c. From the EFI Boot Manager menu, select
EFI Shell
to access the EFI Shell environment.
2.
Access the EFI System Partition (
fs
X
:
where
X
is the file system number) for the device
from which you want to boot OpenVMS.
For example, enter
fs2:
to access the EFI System Partition for the bootable file system
number
2
. The EFI Shell prompt changes to reflect the file system currently accessed.
The full path for the OpenVMS loader is
\efi\vms\vms_loader.efi
. It is on the device
you are accessing.
3.
At the EFI Shell environment, use the
bcfg
command to manage the boot options list.
The
bcfg
command includes the following options for managing the boot options list:
bcfg boot dump
Displays all items in the boot options list for the
system.
bcfg boot rm #
Removes the item number specified by # from the
boot options list.
bcfg boot mv #a #b
Move the item number specified by #a to the position
specified by #b in the boot list.
bcfg boot add # file.efi "Description"
Add a new boot option to the position in the boot
options list specified by #. The new boot option
references
file.efi
and is listed with the title
specified by Description.
For example,
bcfg boot add 1 \efi\vms\vms_loader.efi "HP OpenVMS"
adds
an OpenVMS item as the first entry in the boot options list.
See the
help bcfg
command.
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