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Adding a boot option – HP Unified Extensible Firmware Interface User Manual

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Figure 27 Advanced Boot Maintenance screen

Adding a Boot Option

You can browse all FAT16 and FAT32 file systems. You can then select an X64 UEFI application
with an .EFI extension to add as a new UEFI boot option (such as an OS boot loader or other UEFI
application). The new boot option is appended to the boot order list. Once you select a file, you
are prompted to enter the boot option description (which is then displayed in the Boot menu), as
well as any optional data to be passed to an .EFI application.

To add boot options:
1.

Attach media with a FAT16 or FAT32 partition on it.

2.

From the System Utilities screen, select System Configuration

→Advanced Boot

Maintenance

→Add Boot Option and press Enter.

3.

Browse for a .EFI application from the list and press Enter as shown in

Figure 28 (page 38)

.

4.

Press Enter to drill-down if necessary.

5.

Input the boot option description and optional data as shown in

Figure 29 (page 38)

. A new

boot option appears in the UEFI boot order. For example as shown in

Figure 30 (page 39)

.

6.

Select Commit changes and exit to save your selection.

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