•
bcfg boot mv #a #b
– Moves the item number specified by
#a
to the position
specified by
#b
in the boot options list.
•
bcfg boot add # file.efi "Description"
– Adds 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\redhat\elilo.efi "Red Hat
Enterprise Linux"
adds a Red Hat Enterprise Linux item as the first entry in the boot
options list.
Likewise,
bcfg boot add 1 \efi\SuSE\elilo.efi "SLES 10"
adds a SuSE
Linux item as the first entry in the boot options list.
For details, see the
help bcfg
command.
4.
Exit the console and iLO 2 MP interfaces if you are finished using them.
Enter
Ctrl-B
to exit the system console and return to the MP Main Menu. To exit the iLO 2 MP,
enter
x
at the Main Menu.
Booting the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Operating System
You can boot the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system on HP Integrity servers using either of
these methods:
•
Choose a Red Hat Enterprise Linux entry from the EFI Boot Manager Menu.
To load the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system at the EFI Boot Manager Menu, choose
its entry from the list of boot options.
Choosing a Linux entry from the boot options list boots the operating system using
ELILO.EFI
loader and the
elilo.conf
file.
•
Initiate the
ELILO.EFI
Linux loader from the EFI Shell.
On a Red Hat Enterprise Linux boot device EFI System Partition, the full paths to the loader
and configuration files are:
\EFI\redhat\elilo.efi
and
\EFI\redhat\elilo.conf
.
After choosing the file system for the boot device (for example,
fs0:
) initiate the Linux loader
from the EFI Shell prompt by entering the full path for the
ELILO.EFI
loader.
By default the
ELILO.EFI
loader boots Linux using the kernel image and parameters specified
by the default entry in the
elilo.conf
file on the EFI System Partition for the boot device.
To interact with the
ELILO.EFI
loader, interrupt the boot process (for example, enter a space) at
the
ELILO boot
prompt. To exit the
ELILO.EFI
loader, use the
exit
command.
Booting Red Hat Enterprise Linux from the EFI Shell
To boot Red Hat Enterprise Linux from the EFI Shell:
1.
Access the EFI Shell.
From the system console, choose the
EFI Shell
entry 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 EFI Shell
map
command to list the file systems (
fs0
,
fs1
, and so on) that are known
and mapped.
To choose 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 path by entering
\EFI\redhat\elilo
at the EFI
Shell command prompt.
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