4 Booting and Shutting Down the Operating System

This chapter covers procedures for booting and shutting down operating systems on entry class HP Integrity servers. HP supports the following operating systems:

•HP-UX 11i Version 2 (B.11.23)

•HP Open VMS I64

•Microsoft Windows Server 2003

•Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

•SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9

This chapter addresses the following topics:

•“Configuring System Boot Options” (page 123)

•“Booting and Shutting Down HP-UX” (page 124)

•“Booting and Shutting Down HP OpenVMS” (page 129)

•“Booting and Shutting Down Microsoft Windows” (page 132)

•“Booting and Shutting Down Linux” (page 135)

Configuring System Boot Options

This section discusses the system boot options you can configure on entry class HP servers, including the boot options list and the autoboot setting for the server.

NOTE: To better follow the instructions in this chapter, you should be familiar with the boot paths.

Boot Options List

This section discusses the system boot options you can configure on entry class HP Integrity servers, including the boot options list and the autoboot setting for the server.

The boot options list is a list of loadable items available for you to select from the EFI Boot Manager menu. The boot options list includes the EFI Shell and one or more operating system loaders.

NOTE: In some versions of EFI, the Boot Configuration menu is listed as the Boot Option Maintenance Menu.

The following example includes boot options for HP OpenVMS, Microsoft Windows, HP-UX, and the EFI Shell. The final item in the EFI Boot Manager menu, the Boot Configuration menu, is not a boot option. The Boot Configuration menu enables system configuration through a maintenance menu.

EFI Boot Manager ver 1.10 [14.61] Please select a boot option

HP OpenVMS 8.2-1

EFI Shell [Built-in]

Windows Server 2003, Enterprise

HP-UX Primary Boot: 4/0/1/1/0.2.0

Boot Option Maintenance Menu

Use ^ and v to change option(s). Use Enter to select an option

•To set HP-UX boot options see “Adding HP-UX to the Boot Options List” (page 124)

•To set OpenVMS boot options see “Adding HP OpenVMS to the Boot Options List” (page 129)

Configuring System Boot Options 123