Monitoring Power Up - HP Integrity MC990 X User Manual

Power up
Usage: power [-vcow] on|up [TARGET]—turns power on
-v, --verbose verbose output
-c, --clear clear EFI variables (system and partition targets only)
-o, --override override partition check
-w, --watch watch boot progress
Power down
Usage: [-vo] off |down [TARGET]—shuts power down
Reset system
Usage: power [-vchow] reset [TARGET]—resets the system power
Power status check
Usage: power [-vl0ud] status [TARGET]—checks power-on status.
To monitor the power-on sequence during boot, see Monitoring power up, the -uvpower option
must be included.

Monitoring power up

Establish another connection to the RMC and use the uvcon command to open a system console and
monitor the system boot process. Use the following steps:
RMC:> uvcon
uvcon: attempting connection to localhost...
uvcon: connection to RMC (localhost) established.
uvcon: requesting baseio console access at r001i01b00...
uvcon: tty mode enabled, use 'CTRL-]' 'q' to exit
uvcon: console access established
uvcon: RMC <--> BASEIO connection active
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******* START OF CACHED CONSOLE OUTPUT *******
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** [20100512.143541] BMC r001i01b10: Cold Reset via NL broadcast reset
** [20100512.143541] BMC r001i01b07: Cold Reset via NL broadcast reset
** [20100512.143540] BMC r001i01b08: Cold Reset via NL broadcast reset
** [20100512.143540] BMC r001i01b12: Cold Reset via NL broadcast reset
** [20100512.143541] BMC r001i01b14: Cold Reset via NL broadcast reset
** [20100512.143541] BMC r001i01b04: Cold Reset via NL....
NOTE:
Use CTRL+]+q to exit the console when needed.
Depending on the size of your system, it can take 5 to 10 minutes for the Integrity MC990 X system to
boot to the EFI shell. When the shell> prompt appears, enter fs0: as in the following example:
shell> fs0:
At the fs0: prompt, enter the Linux boot loader information, as follows:
fs0:> /efi/suse/elilo.efi
The ELILO Linux Boot loader is called and various configuration scripts are run and the SUSE Linux
Enterprise Server 12 Service Pack x installation program appears.
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