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 servers with Windows
installed, the
\MSUtil\nvrboot.efi
utility is provided for managing Windows boot
options from the EFI Shell. For HP Integrity servers 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 (use this method if you must add an EFI Shell entry
to the boot options list).
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.
For details, see the following sections:
— Setting HP-UX boot options
— Setting OpenVMS boot options
— Setting Windows boot options
— Setting Linux boot options
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Autoboot Setting
The
autoboot
setting determines at startup whether a server
automatically loads the first item in the boot options list, or remains at the
EFI Boot Manager
menu. When
autoboot
is enabled, EFI loads the first item in the boot options list after a
designated timeout period.
Configure the
autoboot
setting for an HP Integrity server using either the
autoboot
EFI
Shell command, or the
Set Auto Boot TimeOut
menu item from the
EFI Boot Configuration
Menu
.
For example:
To disable
autoboot
from the EFI Shell, enter:
autoboot off
To enable
autoboot
with the default timeout value, enter:
autoboot on
To enable
autoboot
with a timeout of 60 seconds, enter:
autoboot time 60
To set
autoboot
from HP-UX, enter:
setboot
To enable
autoboot
from HP-UX, enter:
setboot -b on
To disable
autoboot
, enter:
setboot -b off
Configuring System Boot Options
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