Booting And Shutting Down Hp Openvms; Adding Hp Openvms To The Boot Options List - HP Integrity rx6600 User's & Service Manual

Booting and Shutting Down HP OpenVMS

This section describes the procedures for booting and shutting down HP OpenVMS on entry class
HP Integrity servers, and procedures for adding HP OpenVMS to the boot options list.
To add an HP OpenVMS entry to the boot options list, see
Options List" (page
To boot HP OpenVMS on an entry class HP Integrity server, see
the EFI Boot Manager" (page
To shut down HP OpenVMS, see

Adding HP OpenVMS to the Boot Options List

On HP Integrity servers, you can use the following procedures to manage boot options list entries
for HP OpenVMS.
You can add the \efi\vms\vms_loader.efi loader to the boot options list from the EFI Shell
or the EFI Boot Configuration menu (or in some versions of EFI, the Boot Option Maintenance
Menu).
NOTE: The operating system installer automatically adds an entry to the boot options list.
To add an HP OpenVMS item to the boot options list from the EFI Shell, follow these steps:
1. Access the EFI Shell environment.
a. Log in to the iLO 2 MP and enter CO to access the system console.
b. Confirm that you are at the EFI Boot Manager menu (the main EFI menu). If you are at
another EFI menu, select the Exit from the submenus until you return to the screen with the EFI
Boot Manager heading.
c. From the EFI Boot Manager menu, select 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 HP OpenVMS.
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 HP OpenVMS loader is \efi\vms\vms_loader.efi. It is 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
bcfg boot rm #
bcfg boot mv #a #b
bcfg boot add # file.efi "Description" Add a new boot option to the position in the boot
For example, bcfg boot add 1 \efi\vms\vms_loader.efi "HP OpenVMS" adds
an HP OpenVMS item as the first entry in the boot options list.
See the help bcfg command.
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"Shutting Down HP OpenVMS" (page
Displays all items in the boot options list for the system.
Removes the item number specified by # from the boot
options list.
Move the item number specified by #a to the position
specified by #b in the boot list.
options list specified by #. The new boot option
references file.efi and is listed with the title
specified by Description.
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