Booting Red Hat Enterprise Linux - HP rp7440 Service Manual

• bcfg boot mv #a #b — Move the item number specified by #a to the position specified
by #b in the boot options list.
• bcfg boot add # file.efi "Description" — Add a new boot option to the position in
the boot options list specified by #. The new boot option references file.efi and is listed
with the title specified by Description.
For example, bcfg boot add 1 \EFI\redhat\elilo.efi "Red Hat
Enterprise Linux"adds a Red Hat Enterprise Linux item as the first entry in the
boot options list.
Likewise, bcfg boot add 1 \efi\SuSE\elilo.efi "SLES 9"adds a SuSE Linux
item as the first entry in the boot options list.
Refer to the help bcfg command for details.
4. Exit the console and management processor interfaces if you are finished using them.
To exit the EFI environment press ^B (Control+B); this exits the system console and returns
to the management processor Main Menu. To exit the management processor, enter X at the
Main Menu.

Booting Red Hat Enterprise Linux

You can boot the Red Hat Enterprise Linux OS on HP Integrity servers using either of the methods
described in this section.
Refer to "Shutting Down Linux" (page 119)
Linux OS.
CAUTION:
ACPI Configuration for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Must Be default
servers, to boot the Red Hat Enterprise Linux OS, an nPartition ACPI configuration must be
value set to default.
At the EFI Shell, enter the acpiconfig command with no arguments to list the current ACPI
configuration. If the acpiconfig value is not set to default, then Red Hat Enterprise Linux
could panic. In this situation, you must reconfigure acpiconfig to eliminate any bus address
conflicts and ensure all I/O slots have unique addresses.
To set the ACPI configuration for Red Hat Enterprise Linux:
• At the EFI Shell enter the acpiconfig default command.
• Enter the reset command for the nPartition to reboot with the proper (default)
configuration for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Use either of the following methods to boot Red Hat Enterprise Linux:
• Choose a Red Hat Enterprise Linux entry from the EFI Boot Manager menu.
To load the Red Hat Enterprise Linux OS at the EFI Boot Manager menu, choose its entry
from the list of boot options.
Choosing a Linux entry from the boot options list boots the OS using ELILO.EFI loader
and the elilo.conf file.
• Initiate the ELILO.EFI Linux loader from the EFI Shell.
Refer to the procedure
After choosing the file system for the boot device (for example, fs0:), you can initiate the
Linux loader from the EFI Shell prompt by entering the full path for the ELILO.EFI loader.
On a Red Hat Enterprise Linux boot device EFI System Partition, the full paths to the loader
and configuration files are:
116 Booting and Shutting Down the Operating System
for details on shutting down the Red Hat Enterprise
"Booting Red Hat Enterprise Linux (EFI Shell)" (page 117)
On cell-based HP Integrity
for details.