Users Guide

6–Boot Agent Driver Software
Setting Up MBA in a Linux Server Environment
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Setting Up the BIOS
To boot from the network with the MBA, make the MBA enabled adapter the first
bootable device under the BIOS. This procedure depends on the system BIOS
implementation. Refer to the user manual for the system for instructions.
Setting Up MBA in a Linux Server Environment
The Red Hat Enterprise Linux distribution has PXE Server support. It allows users
to remotely perform a complete Linux installation over the network. The
distribution comes with the boot images boot kernel (vmlinuz) and initial ram disk
(initrd), which are located on the Red Hat disk#1:
/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz
/images/pxeboot/initrd.img
Refer to the Red Hat documentation for instructions on how to install PXE Server
on Linux.
The Initrd.img file distributed with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, however, does
not have a Linux network driver for the Marvell BCM57xx and BCM57xxx
adapters. This version requires a driver disk for drivers that are not part of the
standard distribution. You can create a driver disk for the Marvell BCM57xx and
BCM57xxx adapters from the image distributed with the installation CD. Refer to
the Linux Readme.txt file for more information.