Booting Red Hat Enterprise Linux from the EFI Shell
1.
Access the EFI Shell.
From the system console, select
EFI Shell
from the EFI Boot Manager menu to access the
shell.
2.
Access the EFI System Partition for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux boot device.
Use the
map
EFI Shell command to list the file systems (
fs0
,
fs1
, and so on) that are known
and mapped.
To select a file system to use, enter its mapped name followed by a colon (
:
). For example,
to operate with the boot device that is mapped as
fs3
, enter
fs3:
at the EFI Shell prompt.
3.
Enter
ELILO
at the EFI Shell command prompt to launch the
ELILO.EFI
loader.
If needed, you can specify the loader’s full path by entering
\EFI\redhat\elilo
at the
EFI Shell command prompt.
4.
Allow the
ELILO.EFI
loader to proceed with booting the Red Hat Enterprise Linux kernel.
By default, the
ELILO.EFI
loader boots the kernel image and options specified by the
default item in the
elilo.conf
file.
To interact with the
ELILO.EFI
loader, interrupt the boot process, for example, enter a
space at the
ELILO boot
prompt.
To exit the loader, use the
exit
command.
Booting the SuSE Linux Enterprise Server Operating System
You can boot the SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 operating system on Integrity servers using
either of these methods:
•
“Selecting a SuSE Linux Enterprise Server entry from the EFI Boot Manager Menu” (page 132)
•
“Booting SuSE Linux Enterprise Server from the EFI Shell” (page 132)
.
Selecting a SuSE Linux Enterprise Server entry from the EFI Boot Manager Menu
1.
Access the EFI Boot Manager menu.
2.
Select its entry from the list of boot options.
3.
Choose a Linux entry from the boot options list to boot the operating system using
ELILO.EFI
loader and the
elilo.conf
file.
Booting SuSE Linux Enterprise Server from the EFI Shell
1.
From the system console, select
EFI Shell
from the EFI Boot Manager menu to access the
EFI Shell.
2.
Access the EFI System Partition for the SuSE Linux Enterprise Server boot device.
Use the
map
EFI Shell command to list the file systems (
fs0
,
fs1
, and so on) that are known
and mapped.
To select a file system to use, enter its mapped name followed by a colon (
:
). For example,
to operate with the boot device that is mapped as
fs3
, enter
fs3:
at the EFI Shell prompt.
3.
Enter
ELILO
at the EFI Shell command prompt to launch the
ELILO.EFI
loader.
If needed, you can specify the loader’s full path by entering
\efi\SuSE\elilo
at the EFI
Shell command prompt.
132
Booting and Shutting Down the Operating System