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тАО05-16-2011 03:33 PM
тАО05-16-2011 03:33 PM
So currently I have 2 independent boot environments, each with each own Grub config.
When I want to switch to my SAN Boot -- I need to press F9 or F11, go to the BIOS and select my FC-HBA as my primary boot controller.
I can already enable my FC-HBA bioses via the Qlogic command line facility "scli" but is there a way to set the Boot Controller Order from Linux?
Or is there a better way? unfortunately -- it seems the Boot Selector on HP Proliants does not offer a facility to pick which disk to boot from. Other servers from Dell and IBM have that facility from within their Boot Menu.
Other ideas welcome on how to manage my boot environments.
TIA!
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тАО05-17-2011 12:50 AM
тАО05-17-2011 12:50 AM
Re: Possible to set Boot Controller Order (Proliant) from Linux Command Line?
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тАО05-17-2011 01:09 AM
тАО05-17-2011 01:09 AM
Re: Possible to set Boot Controller Order (Proliant) from Linux Command Line?
Some Proliant BIOS settings can be changed using the "hpacucli" command that comes with the hpasm/hp-health package. Alas, the Boot Controller Order is not one of those parameters.
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тАО05-17-2011 01:57 AM
тАО05-17-2011 01:57 AM
Re: Possible to set Boot Controller Order (Proliant) from Linux Command Line?
I am a linux enthusiast and has zero experience with enterprise class Linux hardware.So apologies in advance for pig headness if any :).
Here is what I think would help , why not modify grub configuration of local disk to provide a option to boot from SAN too ?
I have setup network booting with grub once. You need to modify the grub.conf and run the grubinstall script. This can potentially render the system unbootable , so prepare a rescue disk iso , so that can recover incase anything goes bad :).
--Lucifer
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тАО05-17-2011 05:46 AM
тАО05-17-2011 05:46 AM
Re: Possible to set Boot Controller Order (Proliant) from Linux Command Line?
My two boot environments are to be independently bootable. Each has its own Grub config that will have no facility to boot environments from the other disk.
On X-Series beemer servers - their Boot Menu when FC-HBA BIOSes with a Boot LUN configured allows selection on which Disk to Boot - Default (Disk0) points to the SAN Boot LUN, 2ndary would be the first local (raid or local lain sas) .. etc.
On Proliants, one has to sepcificy Boot Controller Order -- if you want to boot from SAN, you need to set your FC-HBAs to be on Boot Order 1 and 2 (for multipath) .
Surely there is a way to change whatever BIOS settings from the OS - Linux or WIndows. Or is there ?
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тАО05-17-2011 07:43 AM
тАО05-17-2011 07:43 AM
Re: Possible to set Boot Controller Order (Proliant) from Linux Command Line?
Invalid Arguments
SET BOOT FIRST [ CDROM | FLOPPY | HDD | PXE | USBKEY ]
SET BOOT ONCE [ CDROM | FLOPPY | HDD | PXE | RBSU ]
Partially helpful - RBSU will boot to BIOS - at least that saves one POST cycle switching to a Boot Controller.
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тАО05-17-2011 10:09 AM
тАО05-17-2011 10:09 AM
SolutionOnce upon a time I tried to explain to HP that 'SET BOOT FIRST PXE' is quite useless when you have additional PXE capable network cards installed. The only option seems to be going into the 'curses' BIOS, as not even the command line BIOS has this fine grained control... :-(
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тАО05-17-2011 10:21 AM
тАО05-17-2011 10:21 AM
Re: Possible to set Boot Controller Order (Proliant) from Linux Command Line?
hpasmcli is good enough right now. At least one could set it to RBSU which reboots the system to the BIOS where the Boto Controller Order can be specified.
WOuld have been uber-kool if there was a tool to:
SET BOOT ONCE FC_HBA1 #1
To specify that my FC HBA adapter #1 would provide the "C" drive that will be the default HDD boot device.
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тАО05-17-2011 10:48 AM
тАО05-17-2011 10:48 AM
Re: Possible to set Boot Controller Order (Proliant) from Linux Command Line?
http://www.hp.com/servers/sstoolkit
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тАО05-17-2011 04:37 PM
тАО05-17-2011 04:37 PM
Re: Possible to set Boot Controller Order (Proliant) from Linux Command Line?
Conrep is available for both Windows and Linux and is part of the SmartStart Scripting Toolkit.
http://www.hp.com/servers/sstoolkit
There is a standalone version of conrep, but I'm not sure of the URL