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♦ ♦ ♦ C H A P T E R 3
Creating a Bootable Drive in a Preboot
Environment
This chapter describes how to use the HBA as your boot device prior to installing an operating
system (OS) on the system.
Note -
If you are installing the HBA into a system that already has an OS installed, do not
perform any tasks in this chapter. Instead, complete the HBA installation, as described in
Complete the Installation” on page 17
This chapter contains the following topics:
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“About Creating a Bootable Drive in a Preboot Environment ” on page 19
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“Creating a Bootable Drive (SPARC)” on page 20
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“Creating a Bootable Drive (x86)” on page 26
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“Validating the Label of the HBA Logical Drive” on page 41
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“Installing the Oracle Solaris OS” on page 44
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About Creating a Bootable Drive in a Preboot Environment
As an installation option, you can choose to install the HBA into a system that does not yet have
an OS installed. With this installation option, if you plan to use the HBA as your boot device,
you can create a logical drive for the HBA to enable you to boot from the HBA. On a SPARC
system, you would perform these actions using the Preboot Command-Line Interface (
pcli
)
utility. On an x86 system, you would do so using the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface
(UEFI) MegaRAID Configuration menu of the BIOS Setup Utility (UEFI booting).
This section contains the following topics:
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“Utilities Overview” on page 20
Chapter 3 • Creating a Bootable Drive in a Preboot Environment
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