Tuesday, March 28, 2006

Lan booting the rx2600 Itanium system

Lan booting the rx2600 Itanium system. Go to the EFI shell and issue the command lanboot select. This will give the choice of which ethernet interface to use. I believe that the default it the gigabit interface or the one that's got a link, but it will show the MAC address for each of them at this stage. It requires that there be a dhcp/bootp and tftp server in broadcast range. There's good help on the Ignite FAQ. Particularly the entry on PXE-E16 errors Ensure that there's an entry in /etc/bootptab like this

ignite-defaults: ht=ethernet: hn: bf=/opt/ignite/boot/nbp.efi: bs=48

test4: tc=ignite-defaults: ha=00306EF34BAA: sm=255.255.255.0: gw=10.224.0.1: ip=10.224.0.234

test5: tc=ignite-defaults: ha=00306EF3FB21: sm=255.255.255.0: gw=10.224.0.1: ip=10.224.0.235

Here I've added both the cards in a particular system.

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