Users Guide

13–Fibre Channel Over Ethernet
FCoE Boot from SAN
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12. On the Installation Destination window (Figure 13-27) under Other Storage
Options, select your Partitioning options, and then click Done.
Figure 13-27. Selecting Partitioning Options
13. On the Installation Summary window, click Begin Installation.
Linux: Adding Boot Paths
RHEL requires updates to the network configuration when adding new boot
through an FCoE initiator that was not configured during installation.
RHEL 6.2 and Later
On RHEL 6.2 and later, if the system is configured to boot through an initiator port that
has not previously been configured in the OS, the system automatically boots
successfully, but will encounter problems during shutdown. All new boot path initiator
ports must be configured in the OS before updating pre-boot FCoE boot parameters.
1. Identify the network interface names for the newly added interfaces through
ifconfig -a.
2. Edit /boot/grub/menu.lst by adding
ifname=<INTERFACE>:<MAC_ADDRESS> to the line kernel /vmlinuz
… for each new interface. The MAC address must be all lower case and
separated by a colon. (for example, ifname=em1:00:00:00:00:00:00)