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4. Verify that the Boot LUN ID is 0 by selecting the boot LUN that was added in the preceding

step and selecting ITL properties. Figure 6-19 opens with an SRP LUN ID=0.

Figure 6-19 Verify Boot LUN ID = 0

6.3 Installing the OS on the Fibre Channel storage

This section covers some key configuration steps for installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

Update 3 x64 on the HS21 blade booting over InfiniBand through the NFS Server. For the

host to find the NFS server successfully through PXE, it must be configured to boot from the

Network in the blade boot sequence.

Figure 6-20 lists the procedure to load the driver over the network by using the kickstart

configuration file with the driver disk parameter in it to access the InfiniBand host driver CD.

Figure 6-20 Command to load the host drivers through the network by using the kickstart configuration file

#use NFS installation media

driverdisk --source=nfs:9.42.167.200:/install/iso/drivers/topspin/cisco-BladeCenter-linux-3.2.0-118.iso

nfs --server 9.42.167.200 --dir /install/iso/rhel4/u3/x86_64

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