Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 3 - INSTALLATION GUIDE FOR X86-ITANIUMTM-AMD64 AND INTEL EXTENDED MEMORY 64 TECHNOLO Installation Manual page 69

Chapter 4. Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux
move items down the list by selecting it and pressing the [d] key. After changing the boot order,
choose Save changes to NVRAM. Choose Exit to return to the Main Menu.
9. Optionally, you can change to boot timeout value by choosing Set Auto Boot TimeOut => Set
Timeout Value from the Main Menu.
10. Return to the EFI Boot Manager by selecting Exit.
4.30.2.1. Using a Startup Script
It is recommended that you configure the ELILO Boot Manager to boot Red Hat Enterprise Linux
automatically. However, if you require additional commands to be executed before starting the ELILO
boot loader, you can create a startup script named
to boot into Linux.
The script should be in the
startup.nsh
contain the following text:
echo -off
your set of commands
elilo
If you want to pass options to the boot loader (refer to Section 4.30.1 Post-Installation Boot Loader
Options) add them after elilo.
You can either create this file after booting into Red Hat Enterprise Linux or use the editor built into the
EFI shell. To use the EFI shell, at the
as in Linux). For example, if
/boot/efi
prompt. Type to make sure you are in the correct partition. Then type
ls
the contents of the file and save it.
The next time the system boots, EFI detects the
stop EFI from loading the file, type [Ctrl]-[c]. This aborts the process, and returns you to the EFI shell
prompt.
startup.nsh
/boot/efi
prompt, change devices to the system partition (mounted
Shell>
is the system boot partition, type
fs0
startup.nsh
. The last command should be
partition (
/boot/efi/startup.nsh
edit startup.nsh
file and use it to boot the system. To
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elilo
) and
at the EFI Shell
fs0:
. Type