
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 system 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 systems with Windows
installed the
\MSUtil\nvrboot.efi
utility is provided for managing Windows boot
options from the EFI Shell. Likewise on HP Integrity systems with OpenVMS installed the
\efi\vms\vms_bcfg.efi
and
\efi\vms\vms_show
utilities are provided for managing
OpenVMS boot options.
The EFI
Boot Configuration
menu provides the
Add a Boot Option
,
Delete Boot Option(s)
,
and
Change Boot Order
menu items. (If you must add an EFI Shell entry to the boot options
list, use this method.)
Operating system utilities for managing the boot options list include the HP-UX
setboot
command and the HP OpenVMS
@SYS$MANAGER:BOOT_OPTIONS.COM
command.
The OpenVMS I64 installation and upgrade procedures assist you in setting up and validating
a boot option for your system disk. HP recommends that you allow the procedure to do
this. Alternatively, you can use the
@SYS$MANAGER:BOOT_OPTIONS.COM
command (also
referred to as the OpenVMS I64 Boot Manager utility) to manage boot options for your
system disk. The OpenVMS I64 Boot Manager (
BOOT_OPTIONS.COM
) utility is a menu-based
utility and is easier to use than EFI. To configure OpenVMS I64 booting on Fibre Channel
devices, you must use the OpenVMS I64 Boot Manager utility (
BOOT_OPTIONS.COM
). For
more information on this utility and other restrictions, refer to the HP OpenVMS for Integrity
Servers Upgrade and Installation Manual.
For details refer to the following sections.
— To set HP-UX boot options refer to
“Adding HP-UX to the Boot Options List” (page 109)
.
— To set OpenVMS boot options refer to
“Adding HP OpenVMS to the Boot Options List”
(page 120)
.
— To set Windows boot options refer to
“Adding Microsoft Windows to the Boot Options
List” (page 125)
.
— To set Linux boot options refer to
“Adding Linux to the Boot Options List” (page 130)
.
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Autoboot Setting
You can configure the autoboot setting for each nPartition either by using
the
autoboot
command at the EFI Shell, or by using the
Set Auto Boot TimeOut
menu
item at the EFI
Boot Option Maintenance
menu.
To set autoboot from HP-UX, use the
setboot
command.
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ACPI Configuration Value—HP Integrity Server OS Boot
On cell-based HP Integrity servers
you must set the proper ACPI configuration for the OS that will be booted on the nPartition.
To check the ACPI configuration value, issue the
acpiconfig
command with no arguments
at the EFI Shell.
To set the ACPI configuration value, issue the
acpiconfig
value command at the EFI Shell,
where value is either
default
,
windows
, or
single-pci-domain
. Then reset the nPartition
by issuing the
reset
EFI Shell command for the setting to take effect.
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Booting and Resetting nPartitions