User Manual

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Mellanox Technologies
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If the iso method above is not used, two different PXE server configurations are required
(PXELINUX booting labels) for each phase discussed herein (booting the installer and
post-installation boot)
• For booting the installer program off the TFTP server, please provide the client a path to the initrd
and linux kernel as provided inside SLES11SP3-kISO-VPI/pxeboot-install/ in the tgz above.
The below is an example of such label.
LABEL SLES11.3x64_manual_installl
MENU LABEL ^1) Install SLES11.3
kernel SLES11SP3-kISO-VPI/pxeboot-install/linux
append initrd=SLES11SP3-kISO-VPI/pxeboot-install/initrd install=nfs://12.7.6.30/pxerepo/
SLES/11.3/x86_64/DVD1/?device=p4p2
IPAPPEND 2
To install SLES11 SP3 over iSCSI over IPoIB, the following parameters need to be
added to the “append” statement above:
insmod=ib_ipoib insmod=libiscsi insmod=rdma_cm insmod=ib_iser
• For post-installation boot (booting the SLES 11 SP3 off the iSCSI storage using PXE services)
please provide the booting client a path to the initrd and linux kernel as provided inside SLES11SP3-
kISO-VPI/pxeboot/ in the tgz above.
The below is an example of such label.
LABEL SLES11.3x64_iscsi_boot
MENU LABEL ^2) SLES11.3 iSCSI boot
kernel SLES11SP3-kISO-VPI/pxeboot/linux
append initrd= SLES11SP3-kISO-VPI/pxeboot/initrd net-root=iscsi:12.7.6.30::::iqn.2013-
10.qalab.com:sqa030.prt9 TargetAd-dress=12.7.6.30 TargetName=iqn.2013-
10.qalab.com:sqa030.prt9 TargetPort=3260 net_delay=10 rootfstype=ext3 rootdev=/dev/sda2
The steps described in this document do not refer to an unattended installation with autoyast. For
official information on SLES unattented installation with autoyast, please refer to:
https://www.suse.com/documentation/sles11/book_autoyast/?page=/documentation/sles11/
book_autoyast/data/book_autoyast.html
The following is known to work with Mellanox NIC:
append initrd=SLES-11-SP3-DVD-x86_64-GM-DVD1/boot/x86_64/loader/initrd install=nfs://
<NFS IP Address>/<path the the repository directory>/ autoyast=nfs://<NFS IP Address>/
<path to autoyast xml directory>/autoyast-unattended.xml biosdevname=0
IPAPPEND 2
E.4 Installing SLES11 SP3 on a Remote Storage over iSCSI
Step 1. Reboot the diskless client and perform a PXE boot with FlexBoot.
This is not an iSCSI boot, rather a regular PXE initiated network deployment of SLES11
SP3. In the DHCP server configuration, the PXELINUX (pxelinux.0) and a SLES1
1 SP3
distribution media will be provided for network installation.
The clients’ HDD was removed beforehand; therefore the installer will ask to locate a
HDD.
The built-in iSCSI discovery will be used to connect to the iSCSI target LUN parti-
tion.