Solaris, Determine luns to select for boot from san, Solaris 9 – Dell Emulex Family of Adapters User Manual
Page 1409
Boot for the Fibre Channel Protocol User Manual
P010096-01A Rev. A
2. Boot from SAN
Solaris
1409
3. At the Installation Settings screen, after configuring the desired partitions, select the
Expert tab.
4. Select Booting to change the bootloader configuration.
5. The Boot Loader Settings window appears. Select the Boot Loader Installation tab.
6. In the section labeled Boot Loader Location, select Custom Boot Partition, then
select root partition (or boot partition, if you configured one) from the drop-down
box.
7. Click Boot Loader Options. The Boot Loader Options window appears. Select
Write generic Boot Code to MBR and click OK.
8. In the Boot Loader Settings window, click Finish.
9. Proceed with the installation.
10. During the first boot after the installation, use the GRUB command line to change
all hd1 references to hd0, then continue the boot process.
11. Edit the GRUB configuration in /boot/grub/menu.lst to change all hd1 references
to hd0.
Solaris
Configure Boot from SAN on Solaris SFS (x86 and x64)
1. If necessary, install or update the boot code on the adapter (see “Update and Enable
2. If necessary, enable the boot code on the adapter (see “Update and Enable Boot
3. Enable the adapter to boot from SAN (see “Enable an Adapter to Boot from SAN”
4. By default, the boot adapter uses auto topology with loop first. You can set the boot
adapter to use a different topology (see “Change Topology” on page 1426).
5. Configure boot devices (see “Configure Boot Devices” on page 1419).
6. If desired, configure the boot options on the adapter (see “Configure Adapter
7. Boot the Solaris installation CD and follow the prompts.
Note: If you need help determining the LUNs to select for boot from SAN, see the
following section.
Determine LUNs to Select for Boot from SAN
1. Open a terminal window and leave it open.
2. In the terminal window, select the LUN you are going to use as the SAN boot disk
(not the local drive) using the luxadm probe command. This shows all the available
LUNs. Record this LUN information, which is used throughout this procedure.
LUN 0 is used in the example:
luxadm probe