Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 - STORAGE ADMINISTRATION GUIDE 7-2007, Administration Manual

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If EVMS starts before iSCSI on your system so that your EVMS devices, RAIDs, and volumes are
not visible or accessible, you must correct the order in which iSCSI and EVMS are started. Enter the
chkconfig
command at the Linux server console of every server that is part of your iSCSI SAN.
1 At a terminal console prompt, enter either
chkconfig evms on
or
chkconfig boot.evms on
This ensures that EVMS and iSCSI start in the proper order each time your servers restart.
2.5 Using the ELILO Loader Files (IA-64)
On a SUSE Linux Enterprise Server boot device EFI System Partition, the full paths to the loader
and configuration files are:
/boot/efi/SuSE/elilo.efi
/boot/efi/SuSE/elilo.conf
When configuring partitioning during the install on IA64 systems, set the file system type for the
/
boot
partition to
vfat
, then choose Fstab Options and set the Arbitrary option value to
umask=077
to ensure that the partition is accessible only to administrators.
WARNING: Whenever you manually alter the kernel or
initrd
on your system, make sure to run
/sbin/elilo
before shutting down the computer. If you leave out this step, your system might
not be bootable.
2.6 Starting EVMS
If EVMS does not start during the system boot, you must activate it manually.
1 Open a terminal console, then log in as the
root
user or equivalent.
2 At the terminal console prompt, enter
evms_activate
2.7 Starting the EVMS Management Tools
Use the following procedure to start the EVMS management tools.
IMPORTANT: When you are done, make sure to exit the EVMS UI tool. When it is running, the
EVMS UI tool locks the EVMS engine, potentially blocking other EVMS actions from taking place.
1 Open a terminal console, then log in as the
root
user or equivalent.
2
Enter one of the following commands to open the desired EVMS UI: