HP NC373F PCI-E Multifunction 1000SX Gigabit Server Adapter User Manual
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4.
Configure DHCP.
These steps are not described in this guide. See your vendor's respective documentation for details.
5.
Configure the NFS server to export the install diskette image of the iSCSI boot and configuration-
related code and utilities. See "NFS install (on page 30)."
6.
Execute the following command on the PXE server.
# vi /tftpboot/linux-install/pxelinux.cfg/default
7.
Add the following lines to this file:
label
kernel
append initrd=
initrd load_ramdisk=1 autoyast=nfs:
hp-iscsi-boot/scripts/autoinst.xml devfs=nomount \
install=nfs:
8.
Optionally, you can modify /tftpboot/linux-install/msgs/boot.msg to use custom boot messages.
Installing targets using PXE
1.
Power up the server.
2.
Immediately review the iSCSI option ROM messages during POST to confirm that the Option ROM
initialized successfully and is able to login onto the target disk.
3.
When prompted, press
4.
Enter the label number (specified in the above section) at the PXE boot prompt and press the Enter
key. The installation starts pulling the installation sources from the NFS server.
5.
On some servers, the installation returns the following message:
Error - no hard disks and no hard disk controllers were found for this
installation. Check your hardware.
Ignore this message and select OK.
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