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bcfg boot mv #a #b

– Moves the item number specified by

#a

to the position

specified by

#b

in the boot options list.

bcfg boot add # file.efi "Description"

– Adds a new boot option to the

position in the boot options list specified by

#

. The new boot option references

file.efi

and is listed with the title specified by

Description

.

For example,

bcfg boot add 1 \EFI\redhat\elilo.efi "Red Hat

Enterprise Linux"

adds a Red Hat Enterprise Linux item as the first entry in the boot

options list.

Likewise,

bcfg boot add 1 \efi\SuSE\elilo.efi "SLES 10"

adds a SuSE

Linux item as the first entry in the boot options list.

For details, see the

help bcfg

command.

4.

Exit the console and iLO 2 MP interfaces if you are finished using them.

Enter Ctrl-B to exit the system console and return to the MP Main Menu. To exit the iLO 2 MP,
enter

x

at the Main Menu.

Booting the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Operating System

You can boot the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system on HP Integrity servers using either of
these methods:

Choose a Red Hat Enterprise Linux entry from the EFI Boot Manager Menu.

To load the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system at the EFI Boot Manager Menu, choose
its entry from the list of boot options.

Choosing a Linux entry from the boot options list boots the operating system using

ELILO.EFI

loader and the

elilo.conf

file.

Initiate the

ELILO.EFI

Linux loader from the EFI Shell.

On a Red Hat Enterprise Linux boot device EFI System Partition, the full paths to the loader
and configuration files are:

\EFI\redhat\elilo.efi

and

\EFI\redhat\elilo.conf

.

After choosing the file system for the boot device (for example,

fs0:

) initiate the Linux loader

from the EFI Shell prompt by entering the full path for the

ELILO.EFI

loader.

By default the

ELILO.EFI

loader boots Linux using the kernel image and parameters specified

by the default entry in the

elilo.conf

file on the EFI System Partition for the boot device.

To interact with the

ELILO.EFI

loader, interrupt the boot process (for example, enter a space) at

the

ELILO boot

prompt. To exit the

ELILO.EFI

loader, use the

exit

command.

Booting Red Hat Enterprise Linux from the EFI Shell

To boot Red Hat Enterprise Linux from the EFI Shell:
1.

Access the EFI Shell.

From the system console, choose the EFI Shell entry from the EFI Boot Manager Menu to access
the shell.

2.

Access the EFI System Partition for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux boot device.

Use the EFI Shell

map

command to list the file systems (

fs0

,

fs1

, and so on) that are known

and mapped.

To choose a file system to use, enter its mapped name followed by a colon (

:

). For example,

to operate with the boot device that is mapped as

fs3

, enter

fs3:

at the EFI Shell prompt.

3.

Enter

ELILO

at the EFI Shell command prompt to launch the

ELILO.EFI

loader.

If needed, you can specify the loader path by entering

\EFI\redhat\elilo

at the EFI

Shell command prompt.

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