Installation and Upgrade Guide

A.2.1.1 Using the EFI Boot Manager to Select the OpenVMS Console....................................155
A.2.1.2 Using the EFI Shell to Select the OpenVMS Console...................................................156
A.2.2 Selecting Your OpenVMS Console on rx2600 Integrity Servers...........................................157
A.3 Overview of Using EFI.................................................................................................................161
A.3.1 General Notes About Using EFI...........................................................................................162
A.4 Enabling or Disabling Hyper-Threading on Dual-Core Processors............................................164
A.5 Configuring and Managing OpenVMS Booting on Integrity Servers .........................................164
A.5.1 Checking the ACPI Configuration for Booting OpenVMS in an nPartition........................165
A.5.2 Setting Boot Options for Your System Disk.........................................................................165
A.5.2.1 Adding a Boot Option and Setting Boot Flags ............................................................166
A.5.2.1.1 Using EFI to Set Automatic Booting of Your System Disk...................................168
A.5.2.2 Displaying EFI Boot Entries and Mapped OpenVMS Devices....................................168
A.5.2.3 Setting EFI Boot Option Countdown Timer (Timeout)................................................169
A.5.2.4 Saving and Restoring EFI Settings...............................................................................169
A.5.3 Writing a New Boot Block....................................................................................................170
A.5.4 Alpha and Equivalent Integrity Server System Boot Commands........................................172
A.6 Booting Operations.......................................................................................................................172
A.6.1 Overview of Booting on a Cell-Based Server ......................................................................173
A.6.1.1 Booting the nPartition Hardware.................................................................................173
A.6.1.2 Booting OpenVMS I64 on an nPartition.......................................................................174
A.6.2 Booting the OpenVMS I64 OE DVD from the Local Drive..................................................174
A.6.2.1 Alternate Method of Using EFI to Boot the DVD........................................................175
A.6.3 Booting the OpenVMS I64 OE DVD from the InfoServer....................................................178
A.6.4 Booting an Image of the OpenVMS I64 OE DVD Using HP SIM Provisioning...................178
A.6.5 Booting an Image of the OpenVMS I64 OE DVD Using vMedia.........................................178
A.6.6 Booting from a Fibre Channel Device..................................................................................178
A.6.7 Booting Manually from the Local System Disk....................................................................178
A.6.8 Performing a Conversational (Interactive) Boot...................................................................179
A.6.9 Booting with Minimum Startup...........................................................................................180
A.6.10 Booting with the XDelta Utility (XDELTA)........................................................................180
A.6.11 Booting from a Different Root Directory............................................................................181
A.6.12 Emergency Booting.............................................................................................................181
A.6.12.1 Booting with Default System Parameters...................................................................181
A.6.12.2 Booting Without Startup and Login Procedures........................................................182
A.6.12.3 Booting Without a User Authorization File...............................................................183
A.7 Halt and Shutdown Procedures...................................................................................................184
A.7.1 Halting the Integrity Server to Recover from Hangs and Crashes......................................184
A.7.2 Shutting Down the System...................................................................................................185
A.7.2.1 Orderly Shutdown........................................................................................................185
A.7.2.2 Emergency Shutdown with OPCCRASH.EXE............................................................185
A.8 Troubleshooting Procedures.........................................................................................................186
A.8.1 If the System Does Not Boot.................................................................................................186
A.8.1.1 For Hardware Problems...............................................................................................186
A.8.1.2 For Software Problems.................................................................................................186
A.8.2 Detecting and Responding to System Problems..................................................................186
B Setting Up and Performing Network Booting.........................................................189
B.1 About the OpenVMS InfoServer Utility........................................................................................189
B.2 Setting Up Your System as an InfoServer Client...........................................................................191
B.2.1 Determining the Local Network I/O Card to Be Used .........................................................191
B.2.2 Adding the Network Boot Option to the EFI Boot Manager................................................192
B.2.3 Verifying the Network I/O Device Is Bootable by EFI..........................................................193
B.3 Setting Up the InfoServer Server...................................................................................................193
B.4 Setting Up the BOOTP Boot Server and TFTP Server ..................................................................196
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