topic Re: rx5670 EFI Boot Manager in Integrity Servers

rx5670 EFI Boot Manager

taics — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 03:48:18 GMT

Good Morning,

I have a memory upgrade on rx5670.

First, I shut it down, took out the memory board and add memory. Finally try to boot it up

The system cannot boot up at EFI level and i lost the boot disk device path at EFI level.

Does any body know how to create back the boot disk device path ? so the system can boot up using it.

I have successfully create it back and finally boot the system up, but I have forgotten now. Am I right using the EDIT command ?

Thanks and have a nice day!!!

Best Regards
Christopher

Re: rx5670 EFI Boot Manager

Torsten. — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 04:09:01 GMT

What OS is running?

Re: rx5670 EFI Boot Manager

Michal Kapalka (mikap) — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 04:09:34 GMT

hi,

so your system is booted and up and running ??? and you need to make the boot enty in efi shell ??

idf the system is up :

dmesg |grep -i boot

you will get the HW path of your boot disk

setboot -p HP_PATH

setboot -v

mikap

Re: rx5670 EFI Boot Manager

taics — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 09:58:04 GMT

Hi Good Morning,

My HP rx5670 is running HPUX 11.22. The System can not be booted up as the boot disk device path has lost at EFI level and I am staying at EFI level now.

I have to create back the boot disk device path at EFI level in order for the system to be booted up to O/S level.

Does anybody know the command and steps at EFI level for creating back the boot disk device path in order for booting up to O/S level ?

Thanks for your fast response.

Have a nice day!!!

Best Regards
Christopher

Re: rx5670 EFI Boot Manager

taics — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 10:06:24 GMT

Hi Mikap,

I need to set the boot device path at EFI shell as the I can not boot up the o/s now and stay at EFI shell ?

May I know the steps how to create the boot device path at EFI shell ?

Thanks and have a nice day!!!

Best Regards
Christopher

Re: rx5670 EFI Boot Manager

Torsten. — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 10:37:12 GMT

rom EFI shell do

Shell> fs0:

fs0> cd efi/hpux

fs0> hpux.efi

This will start the boot. Once bootet, set the path with "setboot" (see "man setboot").

Re: rx5670 EFI Boot Manager

taics — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 12:21:56 GMT

Hi Torsten,

Thanks for your solution and I believe it will work too.

By the way, I have tried before using the a command ( should be EDIT ) e.g edit 0/1/0/1/0/0.0.0
create back the boot device file at EFI level and boot from it. It will boot direct to O/S level. As the boot device file was lost after uninstall the memory main board.

Do you know the steps to create back the boot device file at EFI level ?

Anyway, I will try your solution at my client server.

Thanks and have a nice day!!!

Best Regards
Christopher

Re: rx5670 EFI Boot Manager

Torsten. — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 12:28:55 GMT

You can use the menu entry "add boot device" or something like this, but I prefer "setboot" from hp-ux.

Re: rx5670 EFI Boot Manager

Lijeesh N G_1 — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:52:06 GMT

Hi,

You can add the boot device either EFI shell or HP-UX level

1) EFI level
=============
==>There are two ways in EFI level

i) Through EFI boot manager.
==>Go to "Boot option maintenance menu"
>Add boot option
>Select boot device
>Enter boot description
>Save settings to NVRAM

ii) Through EFI Shell.
==>
>Find out the boot device with map command.
Shell>map
for eg, suppose "fs0" is your boot disk,
>Enter in to boot disk by typing fs0:
Shell>fs0:

>Find out the OS loader, <<==hpux.efi is the OS loader for HP-UX
fs0>cd \EFI\HPUX\
fs0>ls <<===Here it will display the boot loader
>Add boot entry,
fs0>bcfg boot add

for eg.
fs0:\EFI\HPUX\>bcfg boot add 1 hpux.efi primary boot

2) HPUX level
==================
==>
>Findout the Boot device Hardware path,
#dmesg|grep -i boot device
>Set the boot device,
#setboot -p
>verfiy with #setboot

For eg.
#dmesg|grep -i boot
Boot device's HP-UX HW path is: 0/1/1/0.1.0
#setboot -p 0/1/1/0.1.0
#setboot
Primary bootpath : 0/1/1/0.1.0

Regards,
LIJEESH N G