11–Fibre Channel Over Ethernet
Booting from SAN After Installation
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Booting from SAN After Installation
Now that boot configuration and OS installation are complete, you can reboot and
test the installation. On this and all future reboots, no other user interactivity is
required. Ignore the
CTRL+D
prompt and allow the system to boot through to the
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At this time, if additional redundant failover paths are desired, you can configure
those paths through CCM, and the MBA will automatically failover to secondary
paths if the first path is not available. Further, the redundant boot paths will yield
redundant paths visible through host MPIO software allowing for a fault tolerant
configuration.
Figure 11-16. FCoE Reboot
Driver Upgrade on Linux Boot from SAN Systems
1.
Remove the existing installed 8400 Series package. Log in as root. Query
for the existing 8400 Series package and remove it using the following
commands:
# rpm -e <8400 Series package name>
For example:
rpm -e netxtreme2
or:
rpm -e netxtreme2-x.y.z-1.x86_64
