B Booting The Operating System; Operating Systems Supported On Hp Integrity Servers; Configuring System Boot Options - HP Integrity rx4640 Service Manual

B Booting the Operating System

This chapter covers procedures for booting and shutting down an operating system on the HP
Integrity rx4640 server.

Operating Systems Supported on HP Integrity Servers

HP supports the following operating systems on entry-class HP Integrity servers.
• HP-UX 11i Version 2 (B.11.23)
For details, see
• HP OpenVMS I64
For details, see
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003
For details, see
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
For details, see
• SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10
For details, see

Configuring System Boot Options

This section discusses the system boot options you can configure on entry-class HP Integrity
servers, including the boot options list and the autoboot setting for the server.
• Boot Options List
from the EFI Boot Manager menu. Ordinarily the boot options list includes the EFI Shell
and one or more operating system loaders.
The following example includes boot options for HP OpenVMS, Microsoft Windows, HP-UX,
and the EFI Shell. The final item in the EFI Boot Manager menu, the Boot Configuration
menu, is not a boot option. The Boot Configuration menu enables server configuration
through a maintenance menu.
EFI Boot Manager ver 1.10 [14.61]
HP OpenVMS 8.2-1
EFI Shell [Built-in]
Windows Server 2003, Enterprise
HP-UX Primary Boot: 4/0/1/1/0.2.0
Boot Option Maintenance Menu
Use ^ and v to change option(s). Use Enter to select an option
NOTE:
Maintenance Menu.
To manage the boot options list for each server, 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 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.
"Booting and Shutting Down HP-UX" (page
"Booting and Shutting Down HP OpenVMS" (page
"Booting and Shutting Down Microsoft Windows" (page
"Booting and Shutting Down
"Booting and Shutting Down Linux" (page
The boot options list is a list of loadable items available for you to choose
In some versions of EFI, the Boot Configuration Menu is listed as the Boot Option
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Please select a boot option
Operating Systems Supported on HP Integrity Servers
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