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7. Configure the SAS drive as a boot device by performing the following steps
You are now ready to install the operating system.
Note: A remote SAS storage must boot before the blade server attempts to boot
Configuring the IBM BladeCenter S unit local drives as a SAS boot
device
If you have installed your blade server in an IBM BladeCenter S unit, you can use
local SAS drives of the BladeCenter S unit as a boot device.
For setup and configuration of local SAS drives see the documentation that comes
with IBM BladeCenter S unit.
Complete the following steps from an SMS session with your blade server to
configure a local SAS drive of a BladeCenter S unit as a boot device:
1. Select Change SAS Boot Device on the SAS main menu.
2. Select Change SAS Boot Device Address on the SAS Settings menu.
3. Type the SAS address of the disk you want to boot from and press Enter.
4. Return to the SAS Settings menu.
5. Select Change SAS Boot Device LUN Id on the SAS Settings menu.
6. Type zero and press Enter.
Using the optional modular flash drive
You can install Linux directly to a modular flash drive installed in a QS22 blade
server.
To install Linux on the modular flash drive, complete the following steps:
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b. Click Storage System Profile.
c. In the Storage Systems Profile notebook, click the Controllers tab.
d. Find the preferred controller for your logical drive. Scroll to the Associated
Logical Drives section of each controller. The name you assigned to the
logical drive in step 5 on page 57 is listed as an associated logical drive for
the preferred controller.
e. Within the section for the preferred controller, scroll down to the information
for Host interface Sas. The SAS address for the boot device is specified as
the World-wide identifier of the Sas host interface.
from an SMS session with your blade server:
a. Select Change SAS Boot Device on the SAS main menu.
b. Select Change SAS Boot Device Address on the SAS Settings menu.
c. Type the address of step 6e and press Enter. Omit any colons that were
shown in the Storage Manager window to separate pairs of hexadecimal
digits.
d. Return to the SAS Settings menu.
e. Select Change SAS Boot Device LUN Id on the SAS Settings menu.
f. Type the LUN you assigned in step 5 on page 57 and press Enter.
the operating system from it.
Note: The disk may be either a physical disk or an LSI Integrated RAID volume
created from physical disks.
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