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Combined Boot V ersion 5.01a0 for Emulex HBAs User Manual[...]

Combined Boot User Manual Pag e ii Copyright© 200 5 Emulex Corporat ion. All rights reserved wo rldwide. No part of this document may be reproduced by any means nor translated to any electronic medium withou t the written consent of Em ul ex C orp oration. Information furnished by Emulex Corporation is believed to be accura te and reliable. Howeve[...]

Combined Boot User Manual Pag e iii Introduction .............................................................................................................. 1 Compatibility ...................................................................................................... 1 Things to Know Before Y ou Download .................................[...]

Combined Boot User Manual Pa ge 1 Introduction Combined Boot contains two types of boot code: x86 BootBIOS for x86 systems, and OpenBoot fo r SP ARC Perip heral Compo nent Intercon nect (PCI) and AIX syste ms. Combin ed Boot deter mines your system platform (x86 or SP ARC) and auto matically downloads the prope r boot code ima ge to the host bus ad[...]

Combined Boot User Manual Pa ge 2 Loading x86 BootBIOS Before you update x86 BootBIOS, de cide which utility to use. Emulex o ffers a variety of utilities that you can use to update x86 BootBIO S. The utilities that you can use de pend on your operating system a nd, in some cases, driver: After you decide which utility to use, see the appropriate u[...]

Combined Boot User Manual Pa ge 3 6. Click Boot Bios Firmware (Figure 1). Figure 1: lputiln t, Program T ype list. 7. If the Disable button appear s, the boot code is already en abled; skip to step 9. Oth erwise, continue with step 8. 8. Click Enable ; the En able button changes to Disable and the letter W appears to the left of "Boot Bios Fir[...]

Combined Boot User Manual Pa ge 4 Load x86 BootBIOS Using lputil Prerequisites • The Emulex driver for Lin ux or Solaris is installed and loaded pr operly . • The x86 BootBIOS file has been do wnloaded from the Emu lex Web site and extracted to a directory on your local ha rd drive. • lputil is installed properly . T o load x86 BootBIOS using[...]

Combined Boot User Manual Pa ge 5 3. Press D . The Downlo ad Image wind ow is displaye d. Figure 4: lp6dutil, Download Ima ge Window 4. S pecify the lo cation of the im age file a nd the adap ter to be upd ated. 5. S pecify the Reset After Download setting. • Defaults to Y es. If you are updating a single file to one HBA, keep th e default settin[...]

Combined Boot User Manual Pa ge 6 Enable x86 BootBIOS on HB As Using the BIOS Utility To use any of its features, x86 BootBIOS must be enabled on at least one ins talle d HBA. Prerequisites • x86 BootBIOS is loaded on the HBA . • The BIOS message is enabled. T o enable BootBIOS on the HBA: 1. Boot the system. 2. Press <Alt E> immediately [...]

Combined Boot User Manual Pa ge 7 5. Press 2 to configure the HBA. The adapter con figuration menu is d isplayed (Figu re 8). Figure 8: BIOS Utility , Adapter Config uration Menu 6. Press 1 to Enable or Disable BIOS. 7. Exit the BIOS utility and re boot the system. Afte r x86 BootBIOS is enabled on the HBAs, refer to the Configuration section for i[...]

Combined Boot User Manual Pa ge 8 Configuring x86 BootBIOS Introduction The BIOS utility allows you to cha nge HBA parameters (such as topology, PLOGI re try timer and auto scan setting) and configure boot devices. • Default settings are acceptable for most in stallations. • In the BIOS utility , press <d> to reset the selected adapter to[...]

Combined Boot User Manual Pa ge 9 4. Select 1 to configure boot devices or 2 to configure the adapter ’s parameters. Figure 10: BIOS Utility , Main Configuration Menu 5. If you select to configure the adapter ’s parameters, the adapter configuration menu is displayed. Figure 1 1: Adapter Con figuration Menu Adapter Configuration Menu Summaries [...]

Combined Boot User Manual Pag e 1 0 6. Auto Scan Settin g( + Ad van ced Op tion+) . Enable the first device in the boo t entry list to issu e a Name Server Inquiry . The factory default is disabled. Se e Set Auto Scan on page 13 for more information. 7. Enable or Disabl e EDD 3.0(+ Advan ced Option+) . Enable or disable the Enhanced Disk Driver (ED[...]

Combined Boot User Manual Pag e 11 Change the PLOGI Retry T imer This option allows you to set the inte rval for the PLOGI (port login) retr y timer. This option is especially useful for Tachyon-based RAID arrays. Under ve ry rare occasions , a Tachyo n-based RAID array will reset itself and the port will go o ffline temporarily in the loop. When t[...]

Combined Boot User Manual Pag e 1 2 3. Select 4 , T opology Selection (+Advanced Option+). Figure 14: T opology Me nu 4. Select the topology for the HBA: • Select 1 for auto topology with loop first. • Select 2 for auto topology with point-to-point first. • Select 3 for FC-AL. • Select 4 for fabric point-to-point. 5. Press <x> to exit[...]

Combined Boot User Manual Pag e 1 3 4. Select 1 to enable th e spinup delay , or press 2 to disable it. 5. Press <x> to exit the BIOS utility and reboot the system . Set Auto Scan This option allows you to se t auto scan. The fa ctory default setting is disabled. Auto Scan is available only if none of the eight boot e ntries is configured to [...]

Combined Boot User Manual Pag e 1 4 Enable/Disable EDD 3.0 This option allows you to ena ble or disable the Enh anced Disk Drive (EDD) o ption, which is available on Intel Itanium servers only . Enab ling EDD 3.0 disp lays t he path to the boot device . The defau lt setting is disabled. T o enable or disable EDD 3.0: 1. S tart the BIOS utility and [...]

Combined Boot User Manual Pag e 1 5 Enable/Disable the En vironment V ariable This option allows you to se t the bo ot controller o rder if the system supports the environment va riable. The default setting is d isabled. T o enable or disable the environment variable: 1. S tart the BIOS utility and select th e adapter fo r which you want to en able[...]

Combined Boot User Manual Pag e 1 6 Configure Boot Devices This option supports FC_AL: (public loo p and private loo p) and fabr ic poin t-to-point. Wh en o peratin g in loop (FC_AL) topology , the system automatically determines whether you are configure d for a public or private loop. The BIOS looks for a fabric loop (FL_Po rt) first. If a fabric[...]

Combined Boot User Manual Pag e 1 7 5. Enter the starting LUN. The starting LUN can be any number be tween 0 and 255. Figure 23: LUN List ing There are a possib le 256 LUNs that can be define d per adapter , but the screen disp lays up to 16 consecutive LUNs at a time. In front of each entry , B#D or B#W specifies the boot en try number and whether[...]

Combined Boot User Manual Pag e 1 8 5. Press <S> to specify additional drivers. 6. Select Other . 7. Insert the floppy disk onto which you un zipped th e Emulex drive r in step 2. 8. If you downloaded the port driver , select a to pology from the list and press <Enter>.If you downloaded the miniport drive r , select your adapte r from t[...]

Combined Boot User Manual Pag e 1 9 T roubleshooting x86 BootBIOS There are circumstan ces in which your system may operate in an unexpected manner . This Troubleshooting section explains several of these ci rcumstan ce s and offers one or more workarounds for each situation. The x86 BootBIOS Message Do es Not Appear on Bootup Situation: Y ou want [...]

Combined Boot User Manual Pag e 2 0 Loading OpenBoot Y ou can use one of the following u tilities to load the OpenBoot imag e on th e HBA: • lputil: See Load OpenBoot using lputil on page 20. • lp6dutil Utility for DOS: See the lp6dutil utilit y for DOS manual (click the HBA ’s T roubleshooting link). Load OpenBoot using lputil Prerequisites [...]

Combined Boot User Manual Pag e 2 1 Configuring OpenBoot Creating a Fibre Chan nel Remote Boot Disk The procedures in this se ction explain ho w to set up your b oot disk in a Solaris system. From the system monitor prompt: 1. Reset to default value mode. ok set-default-mode 2. Show all system devices. ok show-devs The actual output will vary depen[...]

Combined Boot User Manual Pag e 2 2 T o set the topology back to loop (if the HBA is connected to a hub), enter these commands. ok" /pci@1f,4000/lpfc@2" select-d ev ok set-fc-al ok unselect-dev ok reset By default, the topology is set to auto-FCAL. T o set auto topology with public or private loop first, enter these commands. ok" /pc[...]

Combined Boot User Manual Pag e 2 3 Making a Bootable System Disk The examples in this procedure use the logica l drive designa ted as "c1t1d0" (con troller 1, target 1, lun 0). Y our logical drive may be different. 1. Boot from the local system disk. 2. Run the format utility . # format 3. Select the logical drive to become th e boot dis[...]

Combined Boot User Manual Pag e 2 4 9. /dev/fd must be unmounted to copy the root file system. First, kill the volum e manger . # ps -ef|grep vold (to obtain the PID or process id) # kill -9 PID (where PID is obtained above) # umount /dev/fd 10. Mount, copy , then unmount the usr2 file system. # mount /dev/dsk/c1t1d0s6 /usr2 # cd /usr # tar cvf - *[...]

Combined Boot User Manual Pag e 2 5 # mkdir proc# mkdir tmp # mkdir vol # mkdir usr 18. Repeat for any other mounts unique to yo ur system that were excluded in the cop y . 19. Edit /root2/etc/vfstab, changing the controller number , target number and LUN n umber to p oint to the new Fibre Channe l boot disk. Fo r example, if th e Fibre Chann el bo[...]

Combined Boot User Manual Pag e 2 6 Viewing OpenBoot Commands T able 2: OpenBoot Commands Command Effect ok .boot - id Displays current boot device id ok .version Displays current version of OpenBoot ok .topology Displays current topology ok .nvram Displays current flags for OpenBo ot ok .host-did Displays actual current AL_P A of adapter ok set-de[...]

Combined Boot User Manual Pag e 2 7 T roubleshooting OpenBoot There are circumstances in which your system ma y opera te in an u nexpected m anner . The T roublesho oting section e xplains severa l of these circum stances and offers one or more workarounds for each situation. The System Cannot moun t or fsck /etc/vfst ab Fibre Channel Boot Disk Sit[...]