Dell Emulex Family of Adapters - Manual (Page 1413)

Boot for the Fibre Channel Protocol User Manual P010096-01A Rev. A
2. Boot from SAN
Solaris
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# shareall
7. Change directories to root (/).
# cd /
8. Eject the Solaris DVD.
9. (Optional) Patch the files that are located in the miniroot on the net install image
that was created by setup_install_server. Patching a file might be necessary if a boot
image has problems. For more information, refer to the Sun Microsystems Solaris 10
10/08 Installation Guide.
Install Solaris by Migrating an Image from a Local SCSI Disk
1. Type the following at the OBP prompt:
show-devs
The ID information for each found adapter is displayed, such as:
/pci@5d,700000/lpfc@1 select-dev
2. Select the Emulex adapter on which you want to enable boot from SAN by entering
the path to the adapter, for example:
" /pci@5d,700000/lpfc@1" select-dev
3. To view the current boot device ID, type
show-devs
" /pci@5d,700000/lpfc@1" select-dev /* to select lpfc@1 (for
example) */
.boot-id
Make a note of the WWPN, DID, or ALPA returned from the probe and write down
the corresponding boot entry.
4. To enable boot from SAN, set the boot device ID to the SAN device from which you
want to boot, for example:
" /pci@5d,700000/lpfc@1" select-dev
wwpn|did|alpa lun target_id set-boot-id
unselect-dev
where wwpn|did|alpa is the device WWPN, DID, or ALPA of the storage device.
lun is the LUN number in hexadecimal. To enter it in decimal, enter
d# [lun]
.
target_id is the target ID in hexadecimal. To enter it in decimal, enter
d#
[target_id]
Note: Emulex recommends using the WWPN in most cases. The DID and ALPA
may change between boots, causing the SAN boot to fail, unless the DID and
ALPA are specifically configured to not change between boots.
Example 1: alpa=e1, lun=100 (decimal) and target id=10 (decimal):
alpa e1 d# 100 d# 10 set-boot-id
Example 2: wwpn=50000034987AFE, lun=af (hexadecimal) and target id=10
(decimal):
wwpn 50000034987AFE af d# 10 set-boot-id