Booting The Microsoft Windows Operating System - HP Integrity rx4640 User's & Service Manual

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Booting the Operating System
Booting and Shutting Down Microsoft Windows
Step 4. At the EFI Shell environment, issue the \MSUtil\nvrboot.efi command to launch the Microsoft
Windows boot options utility.
fs0:\> msutil\nvrboot
NVRBOOT: OS Boot Options Maintenance Tool [Version 5.2.3683]
1. SUSE SLES 10
2. HP-UX Primary Boot: 0/0/1/0/0.2.0
* 3. Windows Server 2003, Datacenter
4. EFI Shell [Built-in]
* = Windows OS boot option
(D)isplay (M)odify (C)opy E(x)port (I)mport (E)rase (P)ush (H)elp (Q)uit
Select>
Step 5. Use the Import command to import the Window boot option file.
Select> i
Enter IMPORT file path: \EFI\Microsoft\WINNT50\Boot0001
Imported Boot Options from file: \EFI\Microsoft\WINNT50\Boot0001
Press enter to continue
Step 6. Enter
to quit the NVRBOOT utility, and exit the console and management processor interfaces if
Q
you are finished using them.
Press
Ctrl+B
enter X at the Main Menu.

Booting the Microsoft Windows Operating System

Boot the Windows Server 2003 operating system on an HP Integrity server by using the EFI Boot Manager to
choose the appropriate Windows item from the boot options list. See "Shutting Down Microsoft Windows" on
page 155 for details on shutting down the Windows operating system.
Step 1. From the EFI Boot Manager menu, choose an item from the boot options list to boot Windows using
the chosen boot option.
Step 2. Access the EFI Boot Manager menu for the server on which you want to boot Windows.
Log in to the management processor and enter CO to choose the system console.
When accessing the console, confirm that you are at the EFI Boot Manager menu (the main EFI
menu). If you are at another EFI menu, choose the
to the screen with the EFI Boot Manager heading.
Step 3. At the EFI Boot Manager menu, choose an item from the boot options list.
Each item in the boot options list references a specific boot device and provides a specific set of boot
options or arguments to be used when booting the device.
Step 4. Press
to initiate booting using the chosen boot option.
Enter
Step 5. Once Windows begins loading, wait for the Special Administration Console (SAC) to become
available.
The SAC interface provides a text-based administration tool that is available from the system
console. For details see the SAC online help (enter ? at the SAC> prompt).
154
to exit the system console and return to the iLO MP Main Menu. To exit the iLO MP,
option from the submenus until you return
Exit
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