topic Re: New RX7640, boot install in Integrity Servers

New RX7640, boot install

wurzul — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:36:32 GMT

I am trying to get a newly installed RX7640 to boot from Ethernet using EFI:

EFI Boot Maintenance Manager ver 2.00 [14.62]

Boot From a File. Select a Volume

Removable Media Boot [Acpi(HWP0002,PNP0A03,100)/Pci(3|1)/Scsi(Pu
Load File [Acpi(HWP0002,PNP0A03,101)/Pci(1|0)/Pci(6|0)/Mac(00248
Load File [Acpi(HWP0002,PNP0A03,101)/Pci(1|0)/Pci(6|1)/Mac(00248
Load File [EFI Shell [Built-in]]
Exit

How can I tell which physical port on the rear of the server I need to plug my cable into?

doing an 'info io' from efi I get

I/O MODULE INFORMATION

I/O Starting
Cell Cab/Bay/ PCI Seg/ Current
Cab/ Chassis/ Bus/Dev Current Peak I/O
Cell Slot Slot (hex) Bus Mode Bandwidth Slot State
---- ---- -------- -------- ---------- --------- ------------
1 0/1 0/0/1/C1 01/00/01 PCI-X 66 533 MB/s Active
1 0/1 0/0/1/1 01/8C/01 PCI-X 133 1.06 GB/s Active
1 0/1 0/0/1/2 01/A9/01 PCI-X 133 1.06 GB/s Active
1 0/1 0/0/1/3 01/C6/00 PCIe x8 2.13 GB/s Unpopulated
1 0/1 0/0/1/4 01/E3/00 PCIe x8 2.13 GB/s Unpopulated
1 0/1 0/0/1/5 01/70/00 PCIe x8 2.13 GB/s Unpopulated
1 0/1 0/0/1/6 01/54/00 PCIe x8 2.13 GB/s Unpopulated
1 0/1 0/0/1/7 01/38/01 PCI-X 133 1.06 GB/s Unpopulated
1 0/1 0/0/1/8 01/1C/01 PCI-X 133 533 MB/s Active

0 0/0 0/0/0/C0 00/00/01 PCI-X 133 533 MB/s Unpopulated
0 0/0 0/0/0/1 00/8C/01 PCI-X 133 1.06 GB/s Active
0 0/0 0/0/0/2 00/A9/01 PCI-X 133 1.06 GB/s Active
0 0/0 0/0/0/3 00/C6/00 PCIe x8 2.13 GB/s Unpopulated
0 0/0 0/0/0/4 00/E3/00 PCIe x8 2.13 GB/s Unpopulated
0 0/0 0/0/0/5 00/70/00 PCIe x8 2.13 GB/s Unpopulated
0 0/0 0/0/0/6 00/54/00 PCIe x8 2.13 GB/s Unpopulated
0 0/0 0/0/0/7 00/38/01 PCI-X 133 1.06 GB/s Unpopulated
0 0/0 0/0/0/8 00/1C/01 PCI 66 533 MB/s Active

hope this make sense

Please request any more info if you need it.

Many thanks

Re: New RX7640, boot install

Turgay Cavdar — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:27:31 GMT

Hi,
What i write below is adaptation from rx8640, i believe it is also valid for rx7640. Lets say that you connect a cable to cell 1 slot3. Look at ACPI part when you say "lanboot select" at the efi, 10C is your card to boot...

Cell PCI-Slot ACPI Path
"0" 1 Acpi(8) 0/0/8/1
2 Acpi(A) 0/0/10/1
3 Acpi(C) 0/0/12/1
4 Acpi(E) 0/0/14/1
5 Acpi(6) 0/0/6/1
6 Acpi(4) 0/0/4/1
7 Acpi(2) 0/0/2/1
8 Acpi(1) 0/0/1/1

Cell PCI-Slot ACPI Path
"1" 1 Acpi(108) 1/0/8/1
2 Acpi(10A) 1/0/10/1
3 Acpi(10C) 1/0/12/1
4 Acpi(10E) 1/0/14/1
5 Acpi(106) 1/0/6/1
6 Acpi(104) 1/0/4/1
7 Acpi(102) 1/0/2/1
8 Acpi(101) 1/0/1/1

Re: New RX7640, boot install

Steven E. Protter — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:30:48 GMT

Shalom,

At this point you can wire any of the lan ports on the system.

if this is on the same lan as an Ignite server, you can even boot to a recovery shell, without benefit of a local disk.

SEP

Re: New RX7640, boot install

wurzul — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:48:17 GMT

OK Thanks but I'm still confused.

Where do I look for the 10c in the below EFI output?

Load File [Acpi(HWP0002,PNP0A03,101)/Pci(1|0)/Pci(6|0)/Mac(00248

Re: New RX7640, boot install

Turgay Cavdar — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:56:44 GMT

What ypu wrote is: Load File [Acpi(HWP0002,PNP0A03,101)/Pci(1|0)/Pci(6|0). After PNP there is comma then "101" which means in my previous table:slot8 of cell1.

Re: New RX7640, boot install

wurzul — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:01:40 GMT

Excellent, that worked a treat.

Points all round!

Many Thanks to all who replied !