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Chapter 4
Booting and Shutting Down the Operating System
Booting and Shutting Down HP-UX
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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. You will use the HPUX.EFI loader to boot HP-UX in
single-user mode in the next step.
After you press any key, the HPUX.EFI interface (the HP-UX Boot Loader prompt, HPUX>) is
provided. 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 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, enter X at the Main
Menu.
LVM-Maintenance Mode HP-UX Booting
This section describes how to boot HP-UX in LVM-maintenance mode on cell-based HP Integrity servers.
LVM-Maintenance Mode HP-UX Booting (EFI Shell)
From the EFI Shell environment, boot in LVM-maintenance mode by stopping the boot process at
the HPUX.EFI interface (the HP-UX Boot Loader prompt, HPUX>) by entering the boot -lm vmunix
command. The EFI Shell is available only on HP Integrity servers.
Refer to “ACPI Configuration for HP-UX Must Be default” on page 147 for required configuration
details.