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A.2.1.1 Using the EFI Boot Manager to Select the OpenVMS Console	155
A.2.1.2 Using the EFI Shell to Select the OpenVMS Console	156
A.2.2 Selecting Your OpenVMS Console on rx2600 Integrity Servers	157
A.3 Overview of Using EFI	161
A.3.1 General Notes About Using EFI	162
A.4 Enabling or Disabling Hyper-Threading on Dual-Core Processors	164
A.5 Configuring and Managing OpenVMS Booting on Integrity Servers	164
A.5.1 Checking the ACPI Configuration for Booting OpenVMS in an nPartition	165
A.5.2 Setting Boot Options for Your System Disk	165
A.5.2.1 Adding a Boot Option and Setting Boot Flags	166
A.5.2.1.1 Using EFI to Set Automatic Booting of Your System Disk	168
A.5.2.2 Displaying EFI Boot Entries and Mapped OpenVMS Devices	168
A.5.2.3 Setting EFI Boot Option Countdown Timer (Timeout)	169
A.5.2.4 Saving and Restoring EFI Settings	169
A.5.3 Writing a New Boot Block	170
A.5.4 Alpha and Equivalent Integrity Server System Boot Commands	172
A.6 Booting Operations	172
A.6.1 Overview of Booting on a Cell-Based Server	173
A.6.1.1 Booting the nPartition Hardware	173
A.6.1.2 Booting OpenVMS I64 on an nPartition	174
A.6.2 Booting the OpenVMS I64 OE DVD from the Local Drive	174
A.6.2.1 Alternate Method of Using EFI to Boot the DVD	175
A.6.3 Booting the OpenVMS I64 OE DVD from the InfoServer	178
A.6.4 Booting an Image of the OpenVMS I64 OE DVD Using HP SIM Provisioning	178
A.6.5 Booting an Image of the OpenVMS I64 OE DVD Using vMedia	178
A.6.6 Booting from a Fibre Channel Device	178
A.6.7 Booting Manually from the Local System Disk	178
A.6.8 Performing a Conversational (Interactive) Boot	179
A.6.9 Booting with Minimum Startup	180
A.6.10 Booting with the XDelta Utility (XDELTA)	180
A.6.11 Booting from a Different Root Directory	181
A.6.12 Emergency Booting	181
A.6.12.1 Booting with Default System Parameters	181
A.6.12.2 Booting Without Startup and Login Procedures	182
A.6.12.3 Booting Without a User Authorization File	183
A.7 Halt and Shutdown Procedures	184
A.7.1 Halting the Integrity Server to Recover from Hangs and Crashes	184
A.7.2 Shutting Down the System	185
A.7.2.1 Orderly Shutdown	185
A.7.2.2 Emergency Shutdown with OPCCRASH.EXE	185
A.8 Troubleshooting Procedures	186
A.8.1 If the System Does Not Boot	186
A.8.1.1 For Hardware Problems	186
A.8.1.2 For Software Problems	186
A.8.2 Detecting and Responding to System Problems	186
B Setting Up and Performing Network Booting	189
B.1 About the OpenVMS InfoServer Utility	189
B.2 Setting Up Your System as an InfoServer Client	191
B.2.1 Determining the Local Network I/O Card to Be Used	191
B.2.2 Adding the Network Boot Option to the EFI Boot Manager	192
B.2.3 Verifying the Network I/O Device Is Bootable by EFI	193
B.3 Setting Up the InfoServer Server	193
B.4 Setting Up the BOOTP Boot Server and TFTP Server	196

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