Ignite-UX Administration Guide for HP-UX 11i (B3921-90080, November 2013)

Firmware
At times you might need new firmware to support a new device or HBA. Ensure that the client’s
firmware supports the devices and HBAs to be used for boot and root. For example, after the
HP9000 rp8400 system was first released, firmware changes enabled the system to boot from
disks connected to Ultra 160 HBAs. Check the Installation and Update Guide for your HP-UX
release, available at http://www.hp.com/go/hpux-core-docs, for instructions on finding firmware
information.
Additionally, firmware support for Fibre Channel, tape devices, and LAN cards might vary. In
some cases, devices are supported for data use, but device boot is not supported.
Disk Arrays
You can install disk arrays using HP-UX, but Ignite-UX does not directly support configuring an
array. The disk array must be configured first; see your array documentation for configuration
instructions. In some cases, system firmware may be used to set up disk arrays. The Ignite-UX install
environment contains tools that are also used to help configure disk arrays. To use these tools in
the install environment, you will need to use the expert recovery functionality to start an install
environment shell. It might also be necessary to load files that are not normally included in the
install environment by using the Ignite-UX loadfile command. When array configuration is
complete, it is necessary to reboot the system in order to use the newly configured disk LUNs during
install.
Client Terminals
The Ignite-UX client-side operating system installation tools support VT100 and Wyse 60 terminals,
compatible terminal emulators, and all HP terminals. Additional information regarding how to
navigate within the Ignite-UX GUI with the keyboard is found in Appendix F (page 246).
24 Ignite-UX Overview