Information To Know Before You Select A Menu Option - HP zx2000 Start Here Manual

Information to Know Before You Select a Menu
Option
Hardware discovery
When you select an enablement kit menu option, the bootloader
loads a Linux kernel and RAM-based root filesystem. The kernel
performs hardware discovery, looking for bootable devices, chip
sets, ethernet cards, disk drives, and storage system controllers to
work with.
Linux for Itanium 2-based systems can be installed directly on
disks attached to SCSI or IDE/ATAPI storage system controllers, or
on a volume configured on a Smart Array controller.
Note When you select a menu option on an Itanium 2-based
server, the enablement kit searches for a Smart Array
controller and reminds you to configure it if it finds
one. See "Appendix A - Using Smart Array with Linux
on Itanium 2-based Servers" at the end of this booklet
for more information.
The enablement kit Linux kernel also includes a driver for a Fibre
Channel Host Bus Adapter (HBA). For information on configuring
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