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Setting up the system
9.
The AMI BIOS banner displays the loaded versions of the BIOS, PAL, SAL, and EFI.
10. The LSI banner appears and indicates the recognized drives. Note, a Platform Configuration
EFI based configuration utility is required to enter the LSI SCSI utility. The QLogic SCSI
utility enables you to manage and configure the server’s SCSI devices. For information on
the Platform Configuration Tool EFI utility and the screens available in this utility, see the
Maxdata Platinum 9000-4R Server System Product Guide.
11. POST concludes and passes control to the Boot Manager.
12. From the Boot Manager, you can use arrow keys to highlight the option that invokes the EFI
Shell, or you can highlight and select the Boot Maintenance Menu. Booting to the EFI Shell
causes the following prompt to appear:
Shell>
13. Mount the LS240 device as block zero. For information on how to mount this device, see
“Mounting the LS240 Device” below.
14. Boot the operating system that you want to run on the server.
Mounting the LS240 Device
Before you can use the LS240 device to read media, you must mount the device. Follow these steps
to mount the LS240 device:
1.
Be sure that you are in the EFI Shell. You should see the following prompt:
Shell>
2.
Insert media into the LS240 drive. You can place any floppy into the drive, an LS240
diskette or a 3.5-inch 1.4 MB floppy disk. The media does not need to contain files. In order
for the mount command in the next step to work, the drive must be loaded with media.
3.
At the shell prompt, enter the following command:
map -r
The media in the LS240 should get remapped to one of the file systems. Ie FS0:, FS1:, FS2. Change
to the appropriate file system and enter the following command:
ls
The Maxdata Platinum 9000-4R Resource CD
The Maxdata Platinum 9000-4R Resource CD has the following contents: Utilities (SDRViewer,
SELViewer, FRUSDR Loader, System Maintenance Utility (SMU), EFI Platform Diagnostics), Quick
Start Guide (this guide), Product Guide and Adobe Acrobat Reader.
The resource CD comes with a menu driven program that can be used for the following:
1.
Create a removable media device containing utilities, service partition and diagnostics.
2.
Install EFI Service Partition. The EFI service partition supports remote access to the
Maxdata Platinum 9000-4R via modem or LAN for the purpose of executing configuration/
setup utilities and diagnostics.
3.
Run Maxdata Platinum 9000-4R EFI based utilities.