EFI 10.3 Boot Option Maintenance Menu

(3) Example

An example is provided below.

Enter New Description: Linux Boot

Enter BootOption Data Type: Unicode

Enter BootOption Data: elilo mylinux 3

Save [Y-Yes N-No]: y

This example shows the booting of OS (Linux) in run level 3 with mylinux specified in the label in elilo.conf.

Figure 10.5 shows a sample boot file and Figure 10.6 shows a boot option setting example.

prompt timeout=20 default=linux relocatable

image=vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.648_EL label=linux initrd=initrd-2.6.9-1.648_EL.img read-only root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00

image=vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.648_EL-test label=mylinux initrd=initrd-2.6.9-1.648_EL.img read-only root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00

Figure 10.5 Sample boot file (elilo.conf)

C122-E003-02EN

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