HP nPartitions (nPars) manual Uefi Shell and HP Posse commands, Uefi Shell Commands

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UEFI

UEFI is an OS and platform-independent boot and preboot interface. UEFI resides between the OS and platform firmware, allowing the OS to boot without having details about the underlying hardware and firmware. UEFI supports boot devices, uses a flat memory model, and hides platform and firmware details from the OS.

NOTE: Unified EFI Forum, Inc. defines the specification used to implement UEFI. POSSE is an HP extension to UEFI, which provides a common user interface architecture to better serve HP customers, service, and manufacturing.

UEFI consolidates boot utilities similar to those found in PA-RISC based servers, such as the BCH, and platform firmware into a single platform firmware. UEFI allows the selection of any UEFI OS loader from any boot medium that is supported by UEFI boot services. An UEFI OS loader supports multiple options on the user interface.

UEFI supports booting from media that contain an UEFI OS loader or an UEFI-defined server partition. An UEFI-defined system partition is required by UEFI to boot from a block device.

The UEFI boot manager loads UEFI applications (including the OS first stage loader) and UEFI drivers from an UEFI-defined file system or image loading service. NVRAM variables point to the file to be loaded. These variables contain application-specific data that is passed directly to the UEFI application. UEFI variables provides system firmware a boot menu that points to all the operating systems, even multiple versions of the same operating systems.

The UEFI boot manager allows you to control the server booting environment. Depending on how you have configured the boot options, after the server is powered up the boot manager presents you with different ways to bring up the server blade. For example, you can boot to the UEFI shell, to an operating system located on the network or residing on media in the server, or the Boot Maintenance Manager.

UEFI Shell and HP POSSE commands

For more information on these commands, enter help command at the UEFI Shell prompt.

Table 15 UEFI Shell Commands

UEFI Shell Command	Definition
?	Displays the UEFI Shell command list or verbose command help
alias	Displays, creates, or deletes UEFI Shell aliases
attrib	Displays or changes the attributes of files or directories
autoboot	Set/View autoboot timeout and retries
bcfg	Display/Modify the driver/boot configuration
boottest	Turn specific speedyboot bits on or off
cd	Displays or changes the current directory
cls	Clears standard output and optionally changes background color
comp	Compares the contents of two files
conconfig	Configure consoles and set/view primary operating system console
connect	Connects one or more UEFI drivers to a device

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