Starting The Configuration Protocol - HP AB479A Installation Manual

This section includes:
• Starting the Configuration
• Using the Driver Configuration
Starting the Configuration protocol
To configure the HBA on Linux, access the Configuration protocol as follows:
1. Use the fibreutils RPM package to obtain efiutil (efiutil.efi) and the auxiliary driver, as
described in
2.
Power on the server to the EFI shell.
3.
Start efiutil as follows (the auxiliary driver is automatically loaded if it is needed):
a. Set the drive to the boot device (for example, fs1:).
b. Change to the directory containing efiutil. For example, enter:
cd efi\qla2xxx
c. Run efiutil:
efiutil.efi
Enter Help at any time for information about commands.
d. Select the HBA channel that you want to configure by selecting adapter.
e. Select configure.
4. Configure the HBA's NVRAM by selecting the menu items for the parameters to be changed, as
described in
5.
Write the new configuration to NVRAM.
6.
Exit the utility (select quit).
7.
Reboot the system.
protocol, page 17
menu, page 18
"Installing the fibreutils RPM" on page 16.
"Using the Driver Configuration
PCI-X 2.0 single-port and dual-port 4Gb FC adapters for Itanium Linux and Windows
menu" on page 18.
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