How to boot off LAN

[dictum9]

Please list the configuration steps I need to take to get an Itanium client 11.23 boot off an Itanium Ignite server (11.31) running latest Ignite.

I need to configure the EFI boot menu on the client and some files on the server.

[Avinash20 · Accepted solution]

Please refer to

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1311797

[sujit kumar singh]

hi on the Ignite server you will need to do the following:

/etc/ined.conf
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make sure that you have the entries pertaining to tftp,bootps and instl_boots as uncommented.


/etc/services
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make sure the the services and the ports are through (not hashed) and that on the Network also these ports are not blocked by Network Admin

tftp 79/udp
bootpc 68/udp
bootps 67/udp
instl_boots 1067/udp
instl_bootc 1068/udp



edit the /etc/bootptab
to make the entry of the client LAN MAC Addresses and the temporary IP addr to be used at boot

ha ---- MAC Address of the client
ip --- Temp IP addr to be assigned to the client LNA I/f during install
sn --- Submnet mask of the interface


that shall be sufficient

to edit this file u can vi /etc/bootptab and have a look at the entries over there in the sample configuration.



on the EFI of the client you can create the DB profile using the Shell command dbprofile


Shell>dbprofile -dn test -cip -sip -gip -m -b "/opt/ignite/boot/nbp.efi"


then to boot using that profile

Shell> lanboot select -dn test


regards
sujit


regards
sujit

[dictum9]

I am using instl_boot

I edited

/etc/opt/ignite/instl_boottab

that's all. It still doesn't boot. Anything else I can do?

[smatador]

Hi,

Could you post for us your /etc/opt/ignite/instl_boottab

[melvyn burnard]

have you checked that the relevant services are running? such as bootp etc?

[sujit kumar singh]

hi

with the relevant services running and that you have both the sides Itanium machines i think instead of /etc/opt/ignite/instl_boottab you shalll require that /etc/bootptab.

and once you open /etc/bootptab go the end of the file and using the last few lines make a new paragraph and edit in the values, once looking at the values you shall easliy found that the values are self-explanatory.

also i had while editing the /etc/bootptab hd put the values of "ha" that is (Hardware Adress or MAC Address of the client LAN Card using the alphabets if occuring in smaller case).


regards
sujit