HP BA322 90087 - Manual (Page 207)

Description Flags
Print debug messages on boot. 0,20000
Print more debug messages on boot. 0,30000
7. The utility prompts you for a description to include with your boot option entry. By default,
the device name is used as the description. You can enter more descriptive information as
in the following example. This example shows a sample confirmation message (for devices
with multiple paths, such as Fibre Channel devices, a separate confirmation message is
displayed for each path). EFI$BCFG is the name of the executor file for the OpenVMS Integrity
servers Boot Manager utility.
Enter a short description (do not include quotation marks).
Description ["DKA0"]: DKA0: OpenVMS V8.4 for PLMs System
efi$bcfg: DKA0: (BOOT003) Option successfully added
8. When you have successfully added your boot option, exit the utility by entering E at the
prompt:
Enter your choice: E
$
B.5.2.1.1 Using EFI to Set Automatic Booting of Your System Disk
HP recommends allowing the OpenVMS installation or upgrade procedure to set your system
disk to boot automatically. Or, use the OpenVMS Integrity servers Boot Manager utility
(SYS$MANAGER:BOOT_OPTIONS.COM). However, you can use EFI. This section explains
how to use EFI to set up your Integrity servers firmware to automatically boot your OpenVMS
Integrity servers system from your system disk. (HP also recommends using the OpenVMS
Integrity servers Boot Manager utility to set boot flags. Optionally, you can use the
vms_loader.efi -flags n,n
command at the EFI prompt to set any of the standard
OpenVMS boot flags, as documented earlier in this appendix.)
Access the EFI Shell and enter the following line at the prompt, where fsn: (such as fs0: or fs1:)
is the device associated with the system disk:
Shell> bcfg boot add 1 fsn:\efi\vms\vms_loader.efi "HP OpenVMS I64"
This command adds the OpenVMS Integrity servers operating system to position 1 in the EFI
Boot Manager menu. The quoted text in the command line (“HP OpenVMS Integrity servers”)
is displayed at position 1 in the EFI boot menu. You can enter any text that helps you identify
the operating system disk. During system power up, the position 1 item is automatically executed
after the countdown.
Alternatively, you can add an EFI boot menu option by using the EFI menu interface:
1.
Select the Boot Configuration option (or in some versions of EFI, the Boot Option Maintenance
Menu).
2. Select Add a Boot Option.
3. Select the boot device and boot file.
NOTE: All EFI boot options embed the disk Globally Unique ID (GUID). Therefore, if you
reinstall OpenVMS or restore a system disk from an image backup, you must first delete
the old boot options and then add a new boot option. To delete a boot option, use the Delete
Boot Option(s) option in the Boot Configuration menu (or Boot Option Maintenance Menu).
Still another method to add a boot entry to the EFI Boot Manager menu is to use the EFI Utilities
for OpenVMS (Integrity servers only) vms_bcfg command, which accepts OpenVMS device
names and also enables you to set flags. However, this command has limited capabilities; for
example, it cannot handle Fibre Channel paths as can the OpenVMS Integrity servers Boot
Manager utility. In the following example, DKA0: is the OpenVMS system disk being added as
the first boot option:
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