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How to boot an IA64 with EFI shell?
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The following procedure can be handy is the default menu entries
of the EFI BIOS do not work for some reason, e.g.
Loading.: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Load of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server failed: Not Found
Press any key to continue
After pressing any key the following menu will re-appear:
EFI Boot Manager ver 1.10 [14.62] Firmware ver 1.32 [4642]
Please select a boot option
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Debian GNU/Linux
iLO Virtual Media
Core LAN Gb A
Core LAN Gb B
EFI Shell [Built-in]
Internal Bootable DVD
Boot Option Maintenance Menu
System Configuration
Use ^ and v to change option(s). Use Enter to select an option
When you see above menu use the arrow keys to select "EFI Shell"
The system will do the following:
Loading.: EFI Shell [Built-in]
EFI Shell version 1.10 [14.62]
Device mapping table
fs0 : Acpi(HWP0002,PNP0A03,0)/Pci(2|1)/Usb(0, 0)/CDROM(Entry0)
fs1 : Acpi(HWP0002,PNP0A03,400)/Pci(1|0)/Sas(Addr500000E012E6E892,Lun0)/HD(Part1,Sig91DAE95E-CED8-48B8-A852-1A484150DD8C)
fs2 : Acpi(HWP0002,PNP0A03,400)/Pci(1|0)/Sas(Addr500000E012E6ECB2,Lun0)/HD(Part1,Sig9B95F64C-840E-4D5E-A33F-1526ECDD4874)
blk0 : Acpi(HWP0002,PNP0A03,0)/Pci(2|1)/Usb(0, 0)
blk1 : Acpi(HWP0002,PNP0A03,0)/Pci(2|1)/Usb(0, 0)/CDROM(Entry0)
blk2 : Acpi(HWP0002,PNP0A03,0)/Pci(2|1)/Usb(0, 0)/CDROM(Entry1)
blk3 : Acpi(HWP0002,PNP0A03,400)/Pci(1|0)/Sas(Addr500000E012E6E892,Lun0)
blk4 : Acpi(HWP0002,PNP0A03,400)/Pci(1|0)/Sas(Addr500000E012E6E892,Lun0)/HD(Part1,Sig91DAE95E-CED8-48B8-A852-1A484150DD8C)
blk5 : Acpi(HWP0002,PNP0A03,400)/Pci(1|0)/Sas(Addr500000E012E6E892,Lun0)/HD(Part2,Sig3CBAF54B-9FC8-46AB-9F56-3132563FEA1A)
blk6 : Acpi(HWP0002,PNP0A03,400)/Pci(1|0)/Sas(Addr500000E012E6E892,Lun0)/HD(Part3,SigBA950E2C-9568-4F1B-9D18-3EAB0E472AAA)
blk7 : Acpi(HWP0002,PNP0A03,400)/Pci(1|0)/Sas(Addr500000E012E6ECB2,Lun0)
blk8 : Acpi(HWP0002,PNP0A03,400)/Pci(1|0)/Sas(Addr500000E012E6ECB2,Lun0)/HD(Part1,Sig9B95F64C-840E-4D5E-A33F-1526ECDD4874)
blk9 : Acpi(HWP0002,PNP0A03,400)/Pci(1|0)/Sas(Addr500000E012E6ECB2,Lun0)/HD(Part2,Sig098B63E6-6961-417E-8F23-7E809E0EF94D)
At the Shell> prompt select the disk you want, e.g.
Shell> fs2:
Just like with a DOS command prompt use cd and dir commands to view the FAT16
content:
fs2:\> cd efi
fs2:\EFI> dir
Directory of: fs2:\EFI
06/28/07 10:09a <DIR> 2,048 .
06/28/07 10:09a <DIR> 0 ..
11/30/07 10:31a <DIR> 2,048 Intel Firmware
11/30/07 10:37a <DIR> 2,048 redhat
08/26/08 03:11p <DIR> 2,048 rear
07/12/07 03:55p <DIR> 2,048 recovery
0 File(s) 0 bytes
6 Dir(s)
fs2:\EFI> cd redhat
To boot redhat just enter:
fs2:\EFI\redhat> elilo
ELILO boot: Uncompressing Linux... done
Loading file initrd...
Just let it boot 'till you get the login prompt.
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