Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 5 - VIRTUAL SERVER ADMINISTRATION, Руководство по установке

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Chapter 4. Installing on Intel
®
and AMD Systems
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elilo linux
If you do not know the names of the installed kernels, you can view the
/boot/efi/elilo.conf
file
in EFI with the following instructions:
1. At the
Shell>
prompt, change devices to the system partition (mounted as
/boot/efi
in Linux).
For example, if
fs0
is the system boot partition, type
fs0:
at the EFI Shell prompt.
2. Type
ls
at the
fs0:\>
to make sure you are in the correct partition.
3. Then type:
Shell> type elilo.conf
This command displays the contents of the configuration file. Each stanza contains a line
beginning with
label
followed by a label name for that kernel. The label name is what you type
after
elilo
to boot the different kernels.
4.28.1. Post-Installation Boot Loader Options
In addition to specifying a kernel to load, you can also enter other boot options such as
single
for
single user mode or
mem=1024M
to force Red Hat Enterprise Linux to use 1024 MB of memory. To
pass options to the boot loader, enter the following at the EFI Shell prompt (replace
linux
with the
label name of the kernel you want to boot and
option
with the boot options you want to pass to the
kernel):
elilo linux option
4.28.2. Booting Red Hat Enterprise Linux Automatically
After installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux you can type
elilo
and any boot options at the EFI Shell
prompt each time you wish to boot your Itanium system. However, if you wish to configure your system
to boot into Red Hat Enterprise Linux automatically, you need to configure the
EFI Boot Manager
.
To configure the
EFI Boot Manager
(may vary slightly depending on your hardware):
1. Boot the Itanium system and choose
Boot option maintenance menu
from the
EFI Boot
Manager
menu.
2. Choose
Add a Boot Option
from the Main Menu.
3. Select the system partition that is mounted as
/boot/efi/
in Linux.
4. Select the
elilo.efi
file.
5. At the
Enter New Description:
prompt, type
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
, or any
name that you want to appear on the
EFI Boot Manager
menu.
6. At the
Enter Boot Option Data Type:
prompt, enter
N
for
No Boot Option
if you do
not want to pass options to the ELILO boot loader. This option works for most cases. If you