HP Integrity Server rx4640 manual Booting and Shutting Down Microsoft Windows

Booting the Operating System

Booting and Shutting Down Microsoft Windows

Booting and Shutting Down Microsoft Windows

This section describes how to boot and shut down Microsoft Windows on entry-class HP Integrity servers and how to add Windows entries to the system boot options list.

•“Adding Microsoft Windows to the Boot Options List” on page 153

•“Booting the Microsoft Windows Operating System” on page 154

•“Shutting Down Microsoft Windows” on page 155

Adding Microsoft Windows to the Boot Options List

To add a Microsoft Windows entry to the system boot options list you must do so from EFI by using the \MSUtil\nvrboot.efi utility to import boot options from the EFI\Microsoft\WINNT50\Boot00... file on the device from which Windows is loaded.

This procedure adds the Microsoft Windows item to the boot options list.

NOTE	On HP Integrity servers, the operating system installer automatically adds an entry to the boot
	options list.

Step 1. Access the EFI Shell environment.

Log in to the iLO MP and enter CO to access 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. Access the EFI System Partition (fsX: where X is the file system number) for the device from which you want to boot Windows.

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.

The full path for the Microsoft Windows loader is \efi\microsoft\winnt50\ia64ldr.efi and it should be on the device you are accessing. However, you must only initiate this loader from the EFI Boot Menu and not from the EFI Shell.

Step 3. List the contents of the \EFI\Microsoft\WINNT50 directory to identify the name of the Windows boot option file (Boot00nn) that you want to import into the system boot options list.

fs0:\> ls EFI\Microsoft\WINNT50 Directory of: fs0:\EFI\Microsoft\WINNT50

09/18/03		11:58a <DIR>	1,024 .
09/18/03		11:58a <DIR>	1,024 ..
12/18/03		08:16a	354 Boot0001
	1	File(s)	354 bytes
	2	Dir(s)

fs0:\>

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