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Booting hp-ux in lvm-maintenance mode, Shutting down hp-ux, Booting hp-ux in lvm-maintenance – HP BL860C User Manual

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loading symbol table
loading System Directory(boot.sys) to MFS
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loading MFSFILES Directory(bootfs) to MFS
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Launching /stand/vmunix
SIZE: Text:25953K + Data:3715K + BSS:3637K = Total:33306K

Console is on a Serial Device
Booting kernel...

8.

Exit the console and iLO 2 MP interfaces when finished using them.

Press Ctrl-B to exit the system console and return to the MP Main Menu. To exit the MP, enter

X

at the MP Main Menu.

Booting HP-UX in LVM-Maintenance Mode

To boot HP-UX in LVM-maintenance mode from the EFI Shell:
1.

Stop the boot process at the

HPUX.EFI

interface (the HP-UX Boot Loader prompt,

HPUX>

).

2.

Enter the

boot -lm vmunix

command.

3.

Access the EFI Shell environment for the server on which you want to boot HP-UX in
LVM-maintenance mode.

Log in to the iLO 2 MP and enter

CO

to choose the system console.

Confirm that you are at the EFI Boot Manager Menu (the main EFI menu) when accessing the
console. 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.

4.

Access the EFI System Partition (

fsX:

where

X

is the file system number) for the device from

which you want to boot HP-UX.

5.

When accessing the EFI System Partition for the desired boot device, issue the

HPUX

command

to initiate the

\EFI\HPUX\HPUX.EFI

loader on the device you are accessing.

6.

Press any key within the 10 seconds given for interrupting the HP-UX boot process. This stops
the boot process at the

HPUX.EFI

interface (the HP-UX Boot Loader prompt,

HPUX>

).

7.

At the

HPUX.EFI

interface, enter the

boot -lm vmunix

command to boot HP-UX (the

/stand/vmunix

kernel) in LVM-maintenance (

-lm

) mode.

8.

Exit the console and iLO 2 MP interfaces when finished using them.

Press Ctrl-B to exit the system console and return to the MP Main Menu. To exit the MP, enter

X

at the MP Main Menu.

Shutting Down HP-UX

To shut down HP-UX running on a server, use the

shutdown

command. You have the following

options when shutting down HP-UX:

Shut down and reboot an HP-UX server using

shutdown -r

Shut down and halt (power off) an HP-UX server using

shutdown -h

For more information, see the shutdown(1M )manpage.
1.

Log in to HP-UX running on the server that you want to shut down.

Log in to iLO 2 MP for the server and use the Console menu to access the system console.
Accessing the console through iLO 2 MP enables you to maintain console access to the server
after HP-UX has shut down.

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Booting and Shutting Down the Operating System