Using The Elilo Loader Files (Ia-64); Starting Evms; Starting The Evms Management Tools - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 SP3 - STORAGE ADMINISTRATION GUIDE 2-23-2010 Administration Manual

or
chkconfig boot.evms on
This ensures that EVMS and iSCSI start in the proper order each time your servers restart.

2.5 Using the ELILO Loader Files (IA-64)

On a SUSE Linux Enterprise Server boot device EFI System Partition, the full paths to the loader
and configuration files are:
/boot/efi/SuSE/elilo.efi
/boot/efi/SuSE/elilo.conf
When configuring partitioning during the install on IA64 systems, set the file system type for the
partition to
boot
to ensure that the partition is accessible only to administrators.
WARNING: Whenever you manually alter the kernel or
sbin/elilo
bootable.

2.6 Starting EVMS

If EVMS does not start during the system boot, you must activate it manually.
1 Open a terminal console, then log in as the
2 At the terminal console prompt, enter
evms_activate

2.7 Starting the EVMS Management Tools

Use the following procedure to start the EVMS management tools.
IMPORTANT: When you are done, make sure to exit the EVMS UI tool. When it is running, the
EVMS UI tool locks the EVMS engine, potentially blocking other EVMS actions from taking place.
1 Open a terminal console, then log in as the
2 Enter one of the following commands to open the desired EVMS UI:
Command
evmsgui
evmsn
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, then choose Fstab Options and set the Arbitrary option value to
vfat
before shutting down the computer. If you leave out this step, your system might not be
Description
Starts the graphical interface for EVMS GUI. For information about features in
this interface, see
in the EVMS User Guide at the EVMS project on SourceForge.net.
Starts the text-mode interface for EVMS Ncurses. For information about
features in this interface, see the
evms.sourceforge.net/user_guide/#NCURSES)
EVMS project on SourceForge.net.
on your system, make sure to run
initrd
user or equivalent.
root
user or equivalent.
root
"EVMS GUI" (http://evms.sourceforge.net/user_guide/#GUI)
"EVMS Ncurses Interface" (http://
umask=077
in the EVMS User Guide at the
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