topic Re: EFI boot menu empty in Integrity Servers

EFI boot menu empty

dictum9 — Wed, 16 May 2007 06:11:52 GMT

rx4640 running 11.23

The system is not booting. The boot menu is empty, it's saying:

Boot Menu

and doesn't give me any choices to boot. What could have caused this and what can I do to recreate it?

Re: EFI boot menu empty

Steven E. Protter — Wed, 16 May 2007 07:01:22 GMT

Shalom,

Docs:

http://docs.hp.com/en/5991-6440/ch06s06.html

http://h21007.www2.hp.com/dspp/tech/tech_TechSingleTipDetailPage_IDX/1,2366,5343,00.html

SEP

Re: EFI boot menu empty

Torsten. — Wed, 16 May 2007 07:46:32 GMT

Hi,

run the EFI shell, locate your fs(x) device.

fs0:> cd efi/hpux

fs0:\EFI\HPUX> hpux

(C) Copyright 1999-2006 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
All rights reserved

HP-UX Boot Loader for IPF -- Revision 2.028

Press Any Key to interrupt Autoboot
...

(don't press any key)

Once the OS is running, use "setboot" to re-create the boot menu (this is one way to do this).

Re: EFI boot menu empty

Sumit Ghosal — Wed, 16 May 2007 09:24:09 GMT

Hi,

May be the boot Entry from EFI boot Menu is deleted.

You can try to manually add the entries in
Boot option maintenance menu:
-> Add boot options

thanks

Re: EFI boot menu empty

dictum9 — Wed, 16 May 2007 10:14:59 GMT

That's it, the entries got deleted. The big question is, why. I think there is a bigger issue with the machine, probably the battery is dying, loosing the EFI boot information.

Everything was fine until the machine was brought down for maintenance for 20 mins and after that, it failed to boot, it "forgot" the boot info.