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4.

Allow the

ELILO.EFI

loader to proceed with booting the Red Hat Enterprise Linux kernel.

By default, the

ELILO.EFI

loader boots the kernel image and options specified by the

default item in the

elilo.conf

file.

To interact with the

ELILO.EFI

loader, interrupt the boot process (for example, enter a

space) at the

ELILO boot

prompt. To exit the loader, use the

exit

command.

Booting the SuSE Linux Enterprise Server Operating System

You can boot the SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 operating system on HP Integrity servers using
either of these methods:

Choose a SuSE Linux Enterprise Server entry from the EFI Boot Manager Menu.

To load the SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 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. For details, see

“Booting SuSE Linux

Enterprise Server from the EFI Shell” (page 84)

.

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

\efi\SuSE\elilo.efi

and

\efi\SuSE\elilo.conf

.

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

fs0:

) you can 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 SuSE Linux Enterprise Server from the EFI Shell

To boot SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 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 SuSE Linux Enterprise Server boot device.

Use the

map

EFI Shell 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\SuSE\elilo

at the EFI Shell

command prompt.

4.

Allow the

ELILO.EFI

loader to proceed with booting the SuSE Linux kernel.

By default, the

ELILO.EFI

loader boots the kernel image and options specified by the

default item in the

elilo.conf

file.

To interact with the

ELILO.EFI

loader, interrupt the boot process (for example, enter a

space) at the

ELILO boot

prompt. To exit the loader, use the

exit

command.

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