Booting the SuSE Linux Enterprise Server Operating System
You can boot the SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 operating system on HP Integrity servers using
either of these methods:
•
“Selecting a SuSE Linux Enterprise Server entry from the EFI Boot Manager Menu” (page 133)
•
“Booting SuSE Linux Enterprise Server from the EFI Shell” (page 133)
.
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.
4.
Allow the
ELILO.EFI
loader to proceed with booting the SuSE 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.
Shutting Down Linux
Use the
shutdown
command to shut down Red Hat Enterprise Linux or SuSE Linux Enterprise
Server.
The Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SuSE Linux Enterprise Server
shutdown
command has the
following options:
-h
Powers off the server after shutdown.
Use the
PC
command at the iLO 2 MP command menu to manually power on or power
off server hardware, as needed.
-r
Reboots after shutdown.
-c
Cancels a shutdown in progress.
time
Determines when to shut down. (Required.) You can specify
time
in any of the following
ways:
•
Absolute time in the format
hh
:
mm
, in which
hh
is the hour (one or two digits) and
mm
is the minute (two digits).
•
Number of minutes to wait in the format
+m
, in which
m
is the number of minutes.
•
now
to immediately shut down; this is equivalent to using
+0
to wait zero minutes.
Booting and Shutting Down Linux
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