Setting Up the Console, Booting, and Shutting
Down Your System
This appendix briefly describes the configuration and management
tools that might be available on HP Integrity servers, and explains
how to set up the system console, configure boot options, boot the OpenVMS I64
operating system, and shut down the operating system. The appendix
also includes brief troubleshooting procedures.
Specifically, this appendix contains the following information:
Hardware/firmware configuration and
management interfaces and their features
Setting up your system console
Overview of using the Extensible Firmware Interface
(EFI)
Configuring and managing boot operations such as
the following:
Setting the system for automatic booting
Setting and showing boot devices
Setting boot parameters
Writing a new boot block
Halting and shutting down operations
Troubleshooting procedures
Any information about Integrity server hardware and
utilities is provided in this manual for your convenience and is
not intended to replace the hardware documentation included with your
Integrity server system or the latest documentation available on
the Web. HP Integrity servers come in many different configurations.
Hardware, utilities, and certain hardware configuration procedures
might differ significantly across models, and even across versions
of the same model. Please refer to your hardware documentation
for the most up-to-date information specific to your particular
model and version. Note that the hardware documentation includes
model-specific illustrations to guide you. The latest version of documentation
for your server can be found at the following Web sites: http://docs.hp.com/en/hw.html
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