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 -rcommand is issued).

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 XAV1-D2Y

 

Copyright 1976-2005 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.

 

%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

 

%SMP-I-CPUTRN, CPU #01 has joined the active set.

 

%SMP-I-CPUTRN, CPU #02 has joined the active set.

 

%STDRV-I-STARTUP, OpenVMS startup begun at 13-JUL-2005 14:54:36.25

 

%EWA0, Auto-negotiation mode set by console

 

...

Step

5. Exit the console and iLO MP interfaces when finished using them.

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