Booting and Shutting Down HP-UX

Booting the Operating System

At the EFI Shell, the bcfg command supports listing and managing the boot options list for all operating systems, except Microsoft Windows. On HP Integrity servers with Windows installed, the \MSUtil\nvrboot.efi utility is provided for managing Windows boot options from the EFI Shell. For HP Integrity servers with OpenVMS installed, the \efi\vms\vms_bcfg.efi and \efi\vms\vms_show utilities are provided for managing OpenVMS boot options.

The EFI Boot Configuration Menu provides the Add a Boot Option, Delete Boot Option(s), and Change Boot Order menu items (use this method if you must add an EFI Shell entry to the boot options list).

Operating system utilities for managing the boot options list include the HP-UX setboot command and the HP OpenVMS @SYS$MANAGER:BOOT_OPTIONS.COM command.

For details, see the following sections:

—Setting HP-UX boot options (see “Adding HP-UX to the Boot Options List” on page 144)

—Setting OpenVMS boot options (see “Adding HP OpenVMS to the Boot Options List” on page 149)

—Setting Windows boot options (see “Adding Microsoft Windows to the Boot Options List” on page 153)

—Setting Linux boot options (see “Adding Linux to the Boot Options List” on page 157)

•Autoboot Setting

The autoboot setting determines, at startup, whether a server automatically loads the first item in the boot options list, or remains at the EFI Boot Manager menu. When autoboot is enabled, EFI loads the first item in the boot options list after a designated timeout period.

Configure the autoboot setting for an HP Integrity server using either the autoboot EFI Shell command, or the Set Auto Boot TimeOut menu item from the EFI Boot Configuration menu.

For example, from the EFI Shell to disable autoboot issue the autoboot off command. To enable autoboot with the default timeout value issue the autoboot on command. To enable autoboot with a timeout of 60 seconds issue the autoboot time 60 command.

Set autoboot from HP-UX using the setboot command. Enable autoboot from HP-UX using the setboot -b on command. Disable autoboot using the setboot -b off command.