HP-UX HB v13.00 Ch-21 - Itanium

HP-UX Handbook – Rev 13.00 Page 26 (of 35)
Chapter 21 Itanium Architecture (IA)
October 29, 2013
How to configure additional boot options
It would be nice to have additional boot options configured in the EFI menu, e.g. for boot from
mirror disk, boot to single user mode, etc. Since the Boot options (stored in EFI NVRAM) which
can be specified in the Boot Option Maintenance Menu do not seem to have effect, it has to be
done in a different way.
Here’s how to add a boot option for single user mode boot:
1) Go to EFI shell and switch to the primary boot disk (e.g. c1t0d0):
shell> fs1:
2) Go to the EFI directory, create another subdirectory and copy the bootloader
fs1:\> cd EFI
fs1:\EFI\> mkdir HPUX_single_user
fs1:\EFI\> cp HPUX\HPUX.EFI HPUX_single_user\
fs1:\EFI\> cd HPUX_single_user
3) Create an AUTO file for the bootloader that contains the boot options:
fs1:\EFI\> edit AUTO
enter the line:
boot vmunix –is
or (to boot without quorum check):
boot vmunix –is -lq
Type ESC-s to save and ESC-q to quit the editor.
4) Now exit the EFI shell (exit) and go to the boot maintenance menu in order to add a boot
option for this:
EFI Boot Maintenance Manager ver 1.10 [14.61]
Main Menu. Select an Operation
Boot from a File
Add a Boot Option _
Delete Boot Option(s)
Change Boot Order