Booting and Shutting Down Linux
This section covers booting and shutting down Linux on the server blade. Procedures for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux and SuSE Linux Enterprise Server are given in this section.
•
To add a Linux entry to the boot options list, see
“Adding Linux to the Boot Options List”
(page 85)
.
•
To boot Linux, use the following procedures.
See
“Booting the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Operating System” (page 86)
for details on
Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
◦
◦
See
“Booting the SuSE Linux Enterprise Server Operating System” (page 87)
for details
on SuSE Linux Enterprise Server.
•
To shut down either Red Hat Enterprise Linux or SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, see
“Shutting
Down Linux” (page 88)
.
Adding Linux to the Boot Options List
This section describes how to add a Linux entry to the system boot options list. The processes for
adding both Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SuSE Linux Enterprise Servers are given here.
You can add the
\EFI\redhat\elilo.efi
loader or the
\efi\SuSE\elilo.efi
loader
to the boot options list from the EFI Shell or EFI Boot Configuration menu (or in some versions of
EFI, the Boot Option Maintenance Menu).
NOTE:
On HP Integrity servers, the operating system installer automatically adds an entry to the
boot options list.
1.
Access the EFI Shell environment.
Log in to the iLO 2 MP and enter
CO
to access the system console.
When accessing the console, confirm that you are at the EFI Boot Manager menu (the main
EFI menu). If you are at another EFI menu, choose
Exit
from the submenus until you return to
the screen with the
EFI Boot Manager
heading.
From the EFI Boot Manager menu, choose
EFI Shell
to access the EFI Shell environment.
2.
Access the EFI System Partition (
fsX:
where
X
is the file system number) for the device from
which you want to boot Linux.
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 Red Hat Enterprise Linux loader is
\EFI\redhat\elilo.efi
and it
should be on the device you are accessing.
The full path for the SuSE Linux Enterprise Server loader is
\efi\SuSE\elilo.efi
and
it should be 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 server.
•
bcfg boot rm #
– Removes the item number specified by
#
from the boot options list.
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