Setting Up A Smart Array Raid Card As A Boot Device - HP Integrity rx2600 Upgrade Manual

Setting up a Smart Array RAID Card As a Boot Device

The Smart Array RAID card can be set up as a boot device.
NOTE For PA-RISC systems, use Ignite/UX and saconfig to create the logical drives. For Integrity
systems, use the Option ROM Configuration for Arrays (ORCA) to create the logical drives.
Offline Configuration of HP-UX 11i v1 or HP-UX 11i v2 Using Ignite-UX
To set up a Smart Array 6402 Controller as a boot device, you must install HP-UX 11i v1 or HP-UX 11i v2 on
one of the controller's logical drives. Follow this procedure:
Step 1. Start Ignite-UX from the HP-UX 11i v1 or HP-UX 11i v2 Core OS Install and Recovery Media. The
Ignite-UX Welcome screen displays:
Welcome to Ignite-UX!
Use the <tab> key to navigate between fields, and the arrow keys
within fields.
Use the <return/enter> or <space-bar> to pop-up a choices list.
menus are not clear, select the "Help" item for more information.
Hardware Summary:
+---------------------+----------------+-------------------+ [ Scan Again
| Disks: 3
| CD/DVDs:
| Graphics Ports: 0
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Step 2. Select Run a Recovery Shell. The Recovery Shell screen displays:
NOTE: Creating the second RAM disc and mounting on /dev ...
* Generating device file for the second ramdisc...
* Loading mkfs to make a file system...
version 4 layout
15625 sectors, 15625 blocks of size 1024, log size 1024 blocks
unlimited inodes, largefiles not supported
15625 data blocks, 14529 free data blocks
1 allocation units of 32768 blocks, 32768 data blocks
last allocation unit has 15625 data blocks
* Loading mount to mount/dev/ram1 file system...
* Mounting /dev/ram1 file system succeeded!
* Copying /dev.old files back to /dev succeeds!
* Loading insf to create disk device files...
* Creating disk device files...
* Loading in a shell...
NOTE: Pushing a shell, you will have to use "reboot" to reboot the system when done. Use
the "loadfile" command to bring in more commands as you need them.
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System Model: 9000/800/A500-5X
(204.6GB) | Floppies: 0
0 | Tapes:
| IO Buses: 7
[ Install HP-UX
[ Run a Recovery Shell
[ Advanced Options
Reboot ]
RAID - Smart Array 6402 or 6404 Controller for Internal RAID Installation
| LAN cards: 1
0 | Memory: 4096MB |
| CPUs: 1
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