Section b.5.1 – HP BA322 90087 User Manual
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1.
Power up your server system, as explained in the hardware documentation for your server.
If you use the power button on the front panel, press it only once.
NOTE:
If you see a warning that the BMC system event log (SEL) is full, you can safely
continue by following the prompts; OpenVMS processes the contents of the SEL. If you want
to clear the SEL manually, see the instructions in the first note of
.
HP recommends that you load and use the most current system firmware. For more
information about updating the system firmware, see
.
2.
If you have a cell-based server, check that the ACPI configuration is correct for the OpenVMS
operating system. For more information, see
3.
At the EFI Boot Manager menu, select the EFI Shell [Built-in] option. You can now boot your
OpenVMS Integrity servers system manually, or you can add a new entry to the EFI Boot
Manager menu to have your system booted automatically whenever you power on your
Integrity servers or reboot.
This section discusses the following topics:
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Checking the ACPI configuration for nPartition booting (
•
Setting automatic booting and boot flags for your system disk (
) (also
includes how to set automatic booting using EFI commands)
•
Displaying EFI boot entries and mapped OpenVMS devices, using the OpenVMS Integrity
servers Boot Manager utility (
) (also includes how to display boot
entries using EFI commands)
•
Setting the EFI boot option timeout value, using the OpenVMS Integrity servers Boot Manager
utility (
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Writing a new boot block, using the OpenVMS Integrity servers SET BOOTBLOCK command
(
)
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Comparing Alpha and Integrity servers system boot commands (
)
B.5.1 Checking the ACPI Configuration for Booting OpenVMS in an nPartition
To boot your OpenVMS Integrity servers operating system on a cell-based server, the ACPI
configuration must be set correctly. The ACPI configuration value determines, among other
things, the EFI Path format used when referencing devices. If your Integrity servers was factory
installed, the ACPI configuration is set correctly. If the nPartition on which you want to boot
your OpenVMS system had previously been running a Windows or Linux system, then enter
the following command at the EFI Shell prompt to set the partition to boot correctly with
OpenVMS:
EFI> acpiconfig default
To make this new value take effect, you must reset the nPartition by using the EFI Shell reset
command:
EFI> reset
If the ACPI configuration value is not set properly, when the operating system boots, it fails with
bugcheck code INCONSTATE.
You cannot modify the ACPI configuration value for Integrity servers that do not support
nPartitions (for example, the rx2600 server).
To display the current configuration value, enter the acpiconfig command with no arguments:
EFI> acpiconfig
Acpiconfig settings: default
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