10-25-2012
I have old information on this, but supposedly the EFI boot manager should automatically scan for bootable devices prior to presenting you with the boot menu. Assuming you used the same DVD on both systems and one lists the DVD at bootable and one does not, I would surmise that the problem may lie with the DVD player itself of the system that does not list the DVD as bootable when the Installation DVD is installed.
Last edited by rwuerth; 10-25-2012 at 03:51 PM..
Reason: clarified where I meant DVD player.
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efi_rm(1M) efi_rm(1M)
NAME
efi_rm - remove an EFI file
SYNOPSIS
devicefile] file
DESCRIPTION
removes an EFI file.
The EFI file system is based on the FAT file system and used by the Itanium-based system BIOS to locate an HP-UX bootloader. See efi(4).
devicefile should be the device file for the EFI volume.
If file is a directory, prints a diagnostic message and returns without removing the directory; use efi_rmdir(1M) to remove EFI directo-
ries. file should be relative to the root of the EFI volume specified by devicefile, not to an HP-UX file system.
Options
recognizes the following option:
devicefile is the device special file of the EFI file system from which the file is to be removed. Without the option, uses the device
file specified in the environment variable if it is defined. The option overrides the environment variable.
RETURN VALUE
returns exit code 0 if the file is removed successfully. Otherwise it prints a diagnostic message and returns nonzero.
0 Successful completion.
>0 Error condition occurred.
EXAMPLES
Remove from of device file which contains an EFI file system:
Remove from of persistent device file (see intro(7)), which contains an EFI file system:
AUTHOR
was developed by HP.
SEE ALSO
efi_cp(1M), efi_fsinit(1M), efi_ls(1M), efi_mkdir(1M), efi_rmdir(1M), efi(4), intro(7).
Itanium(R)-based Systems Only efi_rm(1M)