Linux Installation - Dell Broadcom NetXtreme Family of Adapters User Manual

Fibre Channel Over Ethernet: Broadcom NetXtreme II Network Adapter User Guide
are not met, the devices will still show up in the drive list above, but upon proceeding with installation Read/Write
errors will occur.

Linux Installation

The Linux Boot from SAN procedure is indirect and requires the OS to be first installed locally and then imaged to the target
LUN.
Configure the adapter boot parameters and Target Information (press CTRL+S and enter the CCM utility, as detailed in
Preparing System BIOS for FCoE Build and
SLES11 SP1 Installation
RHEL6.0 Installation
SLES11 SP1 Installation
1. Install SLES11 SP1 to a locally attached hard drive.
2. Use by-id for fstab options during installation.
3. Once installation is complete, install the Broadcom linux-nx2 driver package and ensure a connection to the desired
SAN boot LUN.
4. For multipathd/device-mapper configurations, enable multipath services by using the following commands:
a. Set boot.multipath to run level B:
# chkconfig boot.multipath on
b. Set boot.device-mapper to run level B
# chkconfig boot.device-mapper on
c. Set multipathd to run levels 0-6
# chkconfig --level 0123456 multipathd on
5. For PowerPath configurations, no chkconfig changes are required.
6. Set network on:
a. Set network to run levels 0-6:
# chkconfg --level 0123456 network on
7. Run fcoe_setup.sh to create FCoE INITRD and copy the created INITRD file to /boot:
# ./fcoe_setup.sh
# cp fcoe-initrd.img
8. Create backups of '/boot/grub/menu.lst' and '/etc/fstab'.
9. Add a new boot entry to /boot/grub/menu.lst by pointing INITRD to the new INITRD that was created in step 7,
/boot/fcoe-initrd.img and modifying the root/resume parameters to point at the correct device names. For
multipathd/device-mapper configurations, use the /dev/disk/by-id/dm-uuid-part... device names. For PowerPath
configurations, use the /dev/emcpower*:
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Boot.
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