Booting the Itanium HPUX 11.23 from LAN

[Ramesh.K.R.]

Hi Experts,

What is the equivilant of "searc lan install" of PA-RISC systems on Itanium Architecture ??

Also, when i try to to boot from LAN, an Itanium 11.23 system, after adding a boot option, it gives the following ERROR:

Client MAC Address: 00 18 FE 28 50 E6 .....
PXE-E16: Valid PXE offer not received.
Exit status code: Invalid Parameter

I am using the correct LAN card to boot.

Thanks & Regards,
Ramesh

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

The EFI menu includes network boot options. On the old PA-RISC boxes it was only possible to boot a system off a built in lan card. That may be the case here as well.

I know of nobody that regularly boots Itanium boxes off the LAN, so I assume you are trying to get to an Ignite server to restore an image.

Don't use PXE btw, thats not the right option to use for Ignite. To use PXE, you need a PXE server. As your system indicates it did not receive a valid PXE offer.

SEP

[Torsten.]

Hi,

you have to perform EFIs "lanboot" command, for example:

Shell> lanboot select
01 Acpi(000222F0,0)/Pci(1|0)/Mac(00306E0E5268)
Select Desired LAN: 1
Selected Acpi(000222F0,0)/Pci(1|0)/Mac(00306E0E5268)
Running LoadFile()
CLIENT MAC ADDR: 00 30 6e 0e 52 68

Of course you must have a server providing a boot source like ignite!

[Ramesh.K.R.]

Hi,

Yes, i am trying to restore a image from Ignite.

How can we not use PXE & still get to boot from LAN ??

How to know, wheter the LAN card is inbuilt ot not ?? (i had ordered new Itanium rx2620 servers & it has two LAN cards)

Thanks & Regards,
Ramesh.K.R.

[Torsten.]

This is the first NIC inside the rx2620 (A):

ACPI (HWP0002,100) / PCI (2|0)

[Bob Ingersoll]

There is no direct equivalent of "sea lan install" or "bo lan install" on Itanium. On PA, these commands use ports 1067/1068 to talk to the Ignite instl_bootd daemon.

When you boot an IA from the LAN it will always use ports 67/68. So, in order to use instl_bootd with an IA system you need to change the bootps service in inetd.conf to:

bootps dgram udp wait root /opt/ignite/lbin/instl_bootd instl_bootd

This will allow you to boot an IA client over the LAN from an Ignite server.

[Jimmy Roux_1]

Assuming the client's been set up on the ignite server...

On the client...
-to find out which lan to boot lan interface to boot from:
# netstat -rnv

-to find out which mac_address that lan interface uses:
# lanscan

-reboot the system

From the EFI Boot Manager
-select "Boot option maintenance menu"

-select "Boot from a File"

- select "Load File [Acpi...(your_mac_address)


Cheers,

Jimmy