Installation guide

Booting from the external storage array
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Installation and Configuration
Verifying array/LUN visibility for boot
Verification of the adapter ability to access the boot LUN, and boot
BIOS settings is recommended before installing the OS. Care must be
taken to ensure that only a single I/O path to the LUN exists when
installing the OS, a single adapter should have access to only a single
array port at this point. Selecting BIOS and Boot LUN configuration
settings vary with adapter vendor.
Refer to your array documentation for details on verifying adapter
connectivity.
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 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. Now you can copy
your driver files for your adapter to the RAMDISK. Switch to your
USB flash drive with the driver files and copy the files to the