| Booting the Operating System |
| Booting and Shutting Down HP OpenVMS |
Step | 2. 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 use when booting the device. |
Step | 3. Press Enter to initiate booting using the chosen boot option. |
Step | 4. Exit the console and iLO MP interfaces when finished using them. |
| Press Ctrl+B to exit the system console and return to the iLO MP Main Menu. To exit the iLO MP, |
| enter X at the Main Menu. |
| Booting HP OpenVMS (EFI Shell) |
| From the EFI Shell environment, to boot HP OpenVMS on a device first access the EFI System |
| Partition (for example fs0:) for the root device and enter \efi\vms\vms_loader to initiate the |
| OpenVMS loader. |
Step | 1. Access the EFI Shell environment for the server on which you want to boot HP OpenVMS. |
| Log in to the iLO MP 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 Exit option from the submenus until you return |
| to the screen with the EFI Boot Manager heading. |
| From the EFI Boot Manager menu, choose the EFI Shell menu option to access the EFI Shell |
| environment. |
Step | 2. At the EFI Shell environment, issue the map command to list all currently mapped bootable devices. |
| The bootable file systems of interest typically are listed as fs0:, fs1:, and so on. |
Step | 3. Access the EFI System Partition (fsX: where X is the file system number) for the device from which |
| you want to boot HP OpenVMS. |
| For example, enter fs2: to access the EFI System Partition for the bootable file system number 2. |
| The EFI Shell prompt changes to reflect the file system currently accessed. |
| Also, the file system number might change each time it is mapped (for example, when the server |
| boots, or when the map |
Step | 4. When accessing the EFI System Partition for the desired boot device, issue the |
| \efi\vms\vms_loader command to initiate the vms_loader.efi loader on the device you are |
| accessing. |
| fs5:> \efi\vms\vms_loader.efi |
| HP OpenVMS Industry Standard 64 Operating System, Version |
| Copyright |
| %PKA0, Copyright (c) 1998 LSI Logic PKW V3.2.20 ROM 4.19 |
| %PKA0, SCSI Chip is SYM53C1010/66, Operating mode is LVD Ultra3 SCSI |
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| %EWA0, |
| ... |
Step | 5. Exit the console and iLO MP interfaces when finished using them. |
Appendix B | 151 |