Installation guide

4.26. Inst alling Packages
At this point there is nothing left for you to do until all the packages have been installed. How quickly
this happens depends on the number of packages you have selected and your computer's speed.
4.27. Inst allat ion Complet e
Congratulations! Your Red Hat Enterprise Linux installation is now complete!
The installation program prompts you to prepare your system for reboot. Remember to remove any
installation media if it is not ejected automatically upon reboot.
After your computer's normal power-up sequence has completed, the graphical boot loader prompt
appears at which you can do any of the following things:
Press Enter — causes the default boot entry to be booted.
Select a boot label, followed by Enter causes the boot loader to boot the operating system
corresponding to the boot label.
Do nothing — after the boot loader's timeout period, (by default, five seconds) the boot loader
automatically boots the default boot entry.
Do whatever is appropriate to boot Red Hat Enterprise Linux. One or more screens of messages
should scroll by. Eventually, a login: prompt or a GUI login screen (if you installed the X Window
System and chose to start X automatically) appears.
The first time you start your Red Hat Enterprise Linux system in run level 5 (the graphical run level),
the Set u p Agen t is presented, which guides you through the Red Hat Enterprise Linux
configuration. Using this tool, you can set your system time and date, install software, register your
machine with Red Hat Network, and more. The Set u p Ag en t lets you configure your environment at
the beginning, so that you can get started using your Red Hat Enterprise Linux system quickly.
For information on registering your Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription, refer to Chapter 25,
Register Your System and Apply Subscriptions.
4.28. It anium Syst ems — Boot ing Your Machine and Post -Inst allat ion
Set up
This section describes how to boot your Itanium into Red Hat Enterprise Linux and how to set your
EFI console variables so that Red Hat Enterprise Linux is automatically booted when the machine is
powered on.
After you reboot your system at the end of the installation program, type the following command to
boot into Red Hat Enterprise Linux:
elilo
After you type elilo, the default kernel listed in the /boot/efi/elilo.conf configuration file is
loaded. (The first kernel listed in the file is the default.)
If you want to load a different kernel, type the label name of the kernel from the file
/boot/efi/elilo.conf after the elilo command. For example, to load the kernel named linux,
type:
elilo linux
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