To Select a Bootable Drive (x86)
To Select a Bootable Drive (x86)
1.
From the Adapter Properties screen of the LSI Corp Config Utility utility, navigate
to the SAS Topology field, and press Enter.
The SAS Topology screen is displayed.
2.
Navigate to the device that you want, and press Alt+B to select the device as the
primary boot device.
3.
If you want an alternate boot device, navigate to the device that you want, and
press Alt+A.
4.
Confirm the changes you have made, save the configuration, and then press Esc
to exit the utility.
Note -
Additional boot devices for the HBA might be present in the system BIOS as possible
disk selections. However, these devices are not guaranteed to be consistent through storage
configuration changes.
5.
Validate the label of the bootable drive that you created, by following the steps in
“Validating the Label of the HBA Drive” on page 49
.
Validating the Label of the HBA Drive
This section describes how to verify that the physical drive or RAID volume you created for the
HBA has a valid Oracle Solaris label, and therefore can be recognized by the OS. Sometimes,
drives and RAID volumes need to be relabeled using the
format
command (in the case of
SPARC systems) or the
fdisk
command (in the case of x86 systems) in order to be recognized.
To Verify That the Label of a RAID Volume Is Valid
Note -
For your reference, this section provides an example procedure for a SPARC system
that runs the Oracle Solaris OS. For an x86 system that runs a supported OS, you would use the
fdisk
command for that OS to verify the label of a disk. For more information about labeling
disks using the
fdisk
command, see the documentation for your OS.
1.
Become the root user on the system, and issue the
format
command.
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