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Installing a RAMDISK under the EFI Shell
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Installation and Configuration
Installing a RAMDISK under the EFI Shell
Intel provides an EFI toolkit on the Intel website
http://www.intel.com/technology/efi. Included in the EFI
toolkit is the RAMDISK driver. To install the RAMDISK driver on
your system, copy the
RAMDISK.EFI file to your USB flash drive.
Insert the USB flash drive in your EFI-based server’s USB port and
boot the server to the EFI shell. At the shell prompt, locate your USB
flash drive in the device mapping table. A line similar to the
following should be listed in the mapping table:
Fs0: Acpi (PNPOA03,0)/Pci (1D|1)Usb(1,0)/HD(Part1,Sig0D0C0B0A)
Switch to the USB flash drive by typing in the corresponding FS
number, followed by a colon (i.e., Fs0:) and press Enter.
At the FS prompt, type Load RAMDISK.EFI and press Enter. You
should see the message noting that the driver has been loaded
successfully.
To locate the new RAMDISK, type Exit and press Enter. From the
system Boot Manager menu, select EFI Shell to go back to the EFI
Shell. The device map should now show a new FS device as well as
the previous USB device.
Note: The order of the devices may have shifted with the discovery of the
RAMDISK.
Fs0: VenMsg(06ED4DD0-FF78-11D3-BDC4-00A0C94053D1)
Fs1: Acpi (PNP0A03,0)/Pci (1D|1)/Usb(1,0)/HD(Part1,Sig0D0C0B0A)
In the above example, the RAMDISK is now Fs0. At this point, you
can copy your driver files for your HBA to the RAMDISK. Switch to
your USB flash drive with the driver files and copy the files to the
RAMDISK by using the copy command. Like DOS, the copy
command can use an asterisk to grab multiple files, (i.e.,
Copy *.*
fs0:
).
Once the files have been copied to the RAMDISK, you may proceed
to install Windows.
Note: If the server is rebooted at any time, this procedure will need to be
done again as the RAMDISK is deleted during a reboot.