HP rp7440 nPartition Administrator's Guide, Second Edition - Page 112
Control-B, Enter, Procedure 5-8 HP-UX Booting EFI Boot Manager
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Main Menu: Enter command or menu > BOOT PRI Primary Boot Path: 0/0/1/0/0.15 Do you wish to stop at the ISL prompt prior to booting? (y/n) >> n ISL booting hpux Boot : disk(0/0/1/0/0.15.0.0.0.0.0;0)/stand/vmunix To boot an HP-UX kernel other than /stand/vmunix, or to boot HP-UX in single-user or LVM-maintenance mode, stop at the ISL prompt and specify the appropriate arguments to the hpux loader. 4. Exit the console and management processor interfaces if you are finished using them. To exit the BCH environment, press ^B (Control-B); this exits the nPartition console and returns to the management processor Main Menu. To exit the management processor, type X at the Main Menu. Procedure 5-8 HP-UX Booting (EFI Boot Manager) From the EFI Boot Manager menu, choose an item from the boot options list to boot HP-UX using that boot option. The EFI Boot Manager is available only on HP Integrity servers. Refer to "ACPI Configuration for HP-UX Must Be default" (page 110) for required configuration details. 1. Access the EFI Boot Manager menu for the nPartition on which you want to boot HP-UX. Log in to the management processor (MP) and enter CO to access the Console list. Choose the nPartition console. 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. 2. At the EFI Boot Manager menu, choose an item from the boot options list. Each item in the boot options list references a specific boot device and provides a specific set of boot options or arguments to be used when booting the device. 3. Press Enter to initiate booting using the chosen boot option. 4. Exit the console and management processor interfaces if you are finished using them. To exit the EFI environment, press ^B (Control-B); this exits the nPartition console and returns to the management processor Main Menu. To exit the management processor, type X at the Main Menu. Procedure 5-9 HP-UX Booting (EFI Shell) From the EFI Shell environment, to boot HP-UX on a device first access the EFI System Partition (for example fs0:) for the root device and then enter HPUX to initiate the loader. The EFI Shell is available only on HP Integrity servers. Refer to "ACPI Configuration for HP-UX Must Be default" (page 110) for required configuration details. 112 Booting and Resetting nPartitions