topic Re: Issues igniting BL860C in Operating System - HP-UX

Issues igniting BL860C

Davidv — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 04:20:20 GMT

Hi All,

Senierio:-

I have made one of my blades as a Ignite Server.

And added the clients ip/mac address in /etc/bootptab of the Ignite server.

I was following the below Document:-

http://docs.hp.com/en/5992-4815/5992-4815.pdf

So far so good...

On Page 18 of this this document under Boot the Client System from the Ignite-UX Server:-

Procedure for Itanium®-based machines... as mine is a bl860c with 11.31

Issue:

I do not have the option "d. Select the network interface with the MAC address you entered in the /etc/bootptab file."

I am struck at this point and unable to go further...

Conclution:

Any Help will be Appreachited & excellent points will be rewarded.

Re: Issues igniting BL860C

Torsten. — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 04:32:01 GMT

When you select "add a boot option" you should see a list of disks and NIC MAC addresses, example:

[Acpi(HWP0002,0)/Pci(3|0)/Mac(00306E38497X)]

but you can also go to EFI shell and run

Shell> lanboot select

Now select the right NIC.

Re: Issues igniting BL860C

Grayh — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:37:38 GMT

On the Client I have

Device Path VenHw(D65A6B8C-71E5-4DF0-A909-F0D2992B5AA9)
EFI Shell UEFI version 2.00 [14.62]
Device mapping table
blk0 : Acpi(HWP0002,PNP0A03,200)/Pci(1|0)/Sas(Addr500000E01CC25532,Lun0)
blk1 : Acpi(HWP0002,PNP0A03,200)/Pci(1|0)/Sas(Addr500000E01CC1E512,Lun0)
Shell> lanboot select
01 Acpi(HWP0002,PNP0A03,100)/Pci(1|0)/Mac(001F29F28098)
02 Acpi(HWP0002,PNP0A03,100)/Pci(1|1)/Mac(001F29F28099)
03 Acpi(HWP0002,PNP0A03,200)/Pci(2|0)/Mac(001F29F28096)
04 Acpi(HWP0002,PNP0A03,200)/Pci(2|1)/Mac(001F29F28097)
Select Desired LAN: 01
Selected Acpi(HWP0002,PNP0A03,100)/Pci(1|0)/Mac(001F29F28098)

Client MAC Address: 00 1F 29 F2 80 98 ...../
PXE-E16: Valid PXE offer not received.
Exit status code: Invalid Parameter

On the Server where I have Installed Ignite-UX it looks like below:-

Loading.: EFI Shell [Built-in]
EFI Shell UEFI version 2.00 [14.62]
Device mapping table
fs0 : Acpi(HWP0002,PNP0A03,200)/Pci(1|0)/Scsi(Pun1,Lun0)/HD(Part1,SigFE91E836
-89B0-11DD-8000-D6217B60E588)
fs1 : Acpi(HWP0002,PNP0A03,200)/Pci(1|0)/Scsi(Pun1,Lun0)/HD(Part3,SigFE91E89A
-89B0-11DD-8000-D6217B60E588)
blk0 : Acpi(HWP0002,PNP0A03,0)/Pci(2|1)/Usb(0, 0)
blk1 : Acpi(HWP0002,PNP0A03,200)/Pci(1|0)/Scsi(Pun1,Lun0)
blk2 : Acpi(HWP0002,PNP0A03,200)/Pci(1|0)/Scsi(Pun1,Lun0)/HD(Part1,SigFE91E836
-89B0-11DD-8000-D6217B60E588)
blk3 : Acpi(HWP0002,PNP0A03,200)/Pci(1|0)/Scsi(Pun1,Lun0)/HD(Part2,SigFE91E886
-89B0-11DD-8000-D6217B60E588)
blk4 : Acpi(HWP0002,PNP0A03,200)/Pci(1|0)/Scsi(Pun1,Lun0)/HD(Part3,SigFE91E89A
-89B0-11DD-8000-D6217B60E588)
startup.nsh> echo -off

setting hpux path(\EFI\HPUX)...
type 'fs[x]:' where x is your bootdisk (0, 1, 2...)
type 'hpux' to start hpux bootloader
Shell> lanboot select
01 Acpi(HWP0002,PNP0A03,100)/Pci(1|0)/Mac(001F29F280D4)
02 Acpi(HWP0002,PNP0A03,100)/Pci(1|1)/Mac(001F29F280D5)
03 Acpi(HWP0002,PNP0A03,200)/Pci(2|0)/Mac(001F29F280D2)
04 Acpi(HWP0002,PNP0A03,200)/Pci(2|1)/Mac(001F29F280D3)
Select Desired LAN:
---------------------------------------------
Now to Ignite the client where should I do what

Re: Issues igniting BL860C

Torsten. — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:46:12 GMT

Is this a kind of "me-too" question?

The document linked above will tell you - select the clients NIC that was configured to be used on the ignite server.