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Booting the Operating System
Booting and Shutting Down HP-UX
Appendix B
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When accessing the console, confirm that you are at the EFI Boot Manager menu (the main EFI
menu). 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.
Step 2. Access the EFI System Partition (fs
X
: where
X
is the file system number) for the device from which
you want to boot HP-UX.
Step 3. 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.
Step 4. Boot to the HP-UX Boot Loader prompt (HPUX>) by pressing any key within the 10 seconds given for
interrupting the HP-UX boot process. Use the HPUX.EFI loader to boot HP-UX in single-user mode
in the next step.
After you press a key, the HPUX.EFI interface (the HP-UX Boot Loader prompt, HPUX>) launches.
For help using the HPUX.EFI loader, enter the help command. To return to the EFI Shell, enter
exit.
fs0:\> hpux
(c) Copyright 1990-2002, Hewlett Packard Company.
All rights reserved
HP-UX Boot Loader for IA64 Revision 1.723
Press Any Key to interrupt Autoboot
\efi\hpux\AUTO ==> boot vmunix
Seconds left till autoboot - 9
[User Types A Key to Stop the HP-UX Boot Process and Access the HPUX.EFI Loader ]
Type ’help’ for help
HPUX>
Step 5. At the HPUX.EFI interface (the HP-UX Boot Loader prompt, HPUX>) enter the boot -is vmunix
command to boot HP-UX (the /stand/vmunix kernel) in single-user (-is) mode.
HPUX> boot -is vmunix
> System Memory = 4063 MB
loading section 0
................................................... (complete)
loading section 1
........ (complete)
loading symbol table
loading System Directory(boot.sys) to MFS
....
loading MFSFILES Directory(bootfs) to MFS
......
Launching /stand/vmunix
SIZE: Text:25953K + Data:3715K + BSS:3637K = Total:33306K
Console is on a Serial Device
Booting kernel...
Step 6. Exit the console and iLO MP interfaces when finished using them.
Press Ctrl+B to exit the system console and return to the iLO MP Main Menu. To exit the iLO MP,
enter X at the Main Menu.