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Figure 9-60 Multipath disk device properties
9.1.9 Finish IBM SMB Host Bus Adapter BIOS setup
During the planning phase when it is decided where the boot targets need to be
specified, the following steps are required to complete the setup. If no boot
targets need to be specified in the host bus adapter BIOS, only the adapter BIOS
and the selectable boot need to be enabled. In any case, the HBA must be
enabled in the system BIOS.
The initial setup of the host bus adapters has only one boot device initially
defined. Now, the remaining three devices will be defined. This is required to boot
the server no matter which controller owns the array of the logical drive or when
one HBA fails.
Reboot the server and enter the BIOS setup of the host bus adapter by pressing
CTRL+Q
.
During the initial setup of the host bus adapter, only one boot device was defined.
To insure that the system boot can take place no matter which controller owns
the array of the boot logical drive, the alternate controller must be defined as a
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