Users Guide

14–Fibre Channel Over Ethernet
Booting from SAN After Installation
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Booting from SAN After Installation
After boot configuration and OS installation are complete, you can reboot and test
the installation. On this and all future reboots, no other user interactivity is
required. Ignore the CTRL+D prompt and allow the system to boot through to the
FCoE SAN LUN, as shown in Figure 14-37.
Figure 14-37. Booting from SAN After Installation
If additional redundant failover paths are then needed, you can configure those
paths through CCM, and the MBA will automatically failover to secondary paths if
the first path is not available. In addition, the redundant boot paths yield redundant
paths visible through host MPIO software to provide a fault-tolerant configuration.
Driver Upgrade on Linux Boot from SAN Systems
1. Remove the existing installed BCM57xx and BCM57xxx package as follows:
a. Log in as root.
b. Query for the existing BCM57xx and BCM57xxx package.
c. Remove it by issuing the following commands:
# rpm -e <BCM57xx and BCM57xxx package name>
For example:
rpm -e netxtreme2
or:
rpm -e netxtreme2-x.y.z-1.x86_64
2. Install the binary RPM containing the new driver version. Refer to the
linux-nx2 package README file for instructions on how to prepare a binary
driver RPM.