4.Allow the ELILO.EFI loader to proceed with booting the SuSE Linux kernel.

By default, the ELILO.EFI loader boots the kernel image and options specified by the default item in the elilo.conf file.

To interact with the ELILO.EFI loader, interrupt the boot process, for example, type a space at the ELILO boot prompt. To exit the loader, use the exit command.

Shutting Down Linux

Use the shutdown command to shut down Red Hat Enterprise Linux or SuSE Linux Enterprise Server.

The Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SuSE Linux Enterprise Server shutdown command has the following options:

-hPowers off the server after shutdown.

Use the PC command at the iLO 2 MP command menu to manually power on or power off server hardware, as needed.

-rReboots after shutdown.

-cCancels a shutdown in progress.

time Determines when to shut down. (Required.) You can specify time in any of the following ways:

•Absolute time in the format hh:mm, in which hh is the hour (one or two digits) and mm is the minute (two digits).

•Number of minutes to wait in the format +m, in which m is the number of minutes.

•now to immediately shut down; this is equivalent to using +0 to wait zero minutes.

For details see the shutdown(8) Linux manpage. Also see the Linux manpage for the poweroff command.

To shutdown Linux, follow these steps:

1.Log in to Linux running on the system you want to shut down.

2.Issue the shutdown command with the desired command-line options, and include the required time argument to specify when the operating system shutdown is to occur.

For example, shutdown -r +20 shuts down and reboots the system in twenty minutes.

138 Booting and Shutting Down the Operating System