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Overview of the Procedure for Installing HDLM in a Boot Disk

Environment

This subsection provides an overview of the procedure for installing HDLM in

a boot disk environment.

Settings for Using an HDLM Device as a Boot Disk

Check whether LABEL is used. If it is, remove it.
To use HDLM, you must remove the LABEL setting, because a SCSI device

cannot be identified from the value set in LABEL in an HDLM environment.

Install HDLM.
See step 17 in

Edit the configuration file to change the definition such that the HDLM

device can be used as a boot disk.
After editing the configuration file, restart the host to activate the setting.

See steps 18 to 34 in

After completing the above procedure, you can perform a new installation of

HDLM in a boot disk environment that uses a SCSI device.

Upgrade Installation in an Environment Where an HDLM Device Is Used as a

Boot Disk

To perform an upgrade installation of HDLM in a boot disk environment that

uses a SCSI device (for details, see

Edit the configuration file to change the definition so that the OS will start

with a SCSI device specified.
In the definition before the change, the OS starts with HDLM specified.

Perform an upgrade installation of HDLM.
See step 17 in

Change the definition such that the HDLM device can be used as a boot

disk.
Restore the configuration file to its state before the upgrade installation

After completing the above procedure, you can perform an upgrade

installation of HDLM in a boot disk environment that uses a SCSI device.

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Creating an HDLM Environment

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