Fibre Channel Over Ethernet: Broadcom NetXtreme II® Network Adapter User Guide
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13. Click
Next
to proceed.
14. Click
Next
and complete installation as usual.
Upon completion of installation, the system will reboot.
15. Once booted, ensure all boot path devices are set to start on boot. Set onboot=yes under each network interface config file in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts.
16.
On RHEL 6.4 only
, edit /boot/grub/menu.lst.
a. Delete all "fcoe=<INTERFACE>:nodcb" parameters from the "kernel /vmlinuz ... " line. There should be as many fcoe= parameters as there were FCoE interfaces configured
during installation.
b. Insert "fcoe=edd:nodcb" to the "kernel /vmlinuz ... " line.
Linux: Adding Additional Boot Paths
Both RHEL and SLES require updates to the network configuration when adding new boot through an FCoE initiator that was not configured during installation. The following sections
describe this procedure for each supported operating system.
RHEL6.2 and Above
On RHEL6.2 and above, if the system is configured to boot through an initiator port that has not previously been configured in the OS, the system automatically boots successfully, but will
encounter problems during shutdown. All new boot path initiator ports must be configured in the OS before updating pre-boot FCoE boot parameters.
1. Identify the network interface names for the newly added interfaces through
ifconfig -a
.
2. Edit /boot/grub/menu.lst.
a. Add
ifname=<INTERFACE>:<MAC_ADDRESS>
to the line
kernel /vmlinuz ...
for each new interface. The MAC address must be all lower case and separated by a colon. (e.g.,
ifname=em1:00:00:00:00:00:00
)
3. Create a
/etc/fcoe/cfg-<INTERFACE>
file for each new FCoE initiator by duplicating the
/etc/fcoe/cfg-<INTERFACE>
file that was already configured during initial installation.
