Using Evms With Iscsi Volumes; Using The Elilo Loader Files (Ia-64) - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 - STORAGE ADMINISTRATION GUIDE FOR EVMS Administration Manual

With these changes, each time your system boots, your file system is mounted using EVMS as
the volume manager.
4 Update the boot scripts as follows:
The command evms_activate must be run from your boot scripts in order to activate
your volumes so they can be mounted.
If you run software-RAID (boot.md) or LVM (boot.lvm) boot files in your boot
scripts, and if you are moving all devices to EVMS, remove or disable those commands.
5 If you have not already done so, enable the boot.evms service.
For information, see
6 Reboot your system.

2.4 Using EVMS with iSCSI Volumes

If your EVMS devices, RAIDs, and volumes use storage devices from an iSCSI SAN, make sure
that your system starts iSCSI before EVMS so that the SAN and its disks are available to EVMS on
system startup. iSCSI must be started and running before any disks/volumes on the iSCSI SAN can
be accessed. If EVMS starts before iSCSI, EVMS cannot see or access the devices in the iSCSI SAN
to mount the storage objects they contain, so the EVMS devices, RAIDs, and volumes might not be
visible or accessible.
If EVMS starts before iSCSI on your system so that your EVMS devices, RAIDs, and volumes are
not visible or accessible, you must correct the order in which iSCSI and EVMS are started. Enter the
chkconfig command at the Linux server console of every server that is part of your iSCSI SAN.
1 At a terminal console prompt, enter either
chkconfig evms on
or
chkconfig boot.evms on
This ensures that EVMS and iSCSI start in the proper order each time your servers reboot.

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 /
boot partition to vfat, then choose Fstab Options and set the Arbitrary option value to
umask=077 to ensure that the partition is accessible only to administrators.
WARNING: Whenever you manually alter the kernel or initrd on your system, make sure to run
/sbin/elilo before shutting down the computer. If you leave out this step, your system might
not be bootable.
"Enable the boot.evms Service" on page 21.
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