New RX7640, boot install

[wurzul]

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

[Turgay Cavdar]

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

[Steven E. Protter]

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

[wurzul]

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

[Turgay Cavdar]

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.

[wurzul]

Excellent, that worked a treat.

Points all round!

Many Thanks to all who replied !