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RAID - Smart Array 6402 or 6404 Controller for Internal RAID Installation

Smart Array 6402 RAID or 6404 RAID Cards

Chapter 6

Setting up a Smart Array RAID Card As a Boot Device

The Smart Array RAID card can be set up as a boot device.

NOTE For PA-RISC systems, use Ignite/UX and saconfig to create the logical drives. For Integrity

systems, use the Option ROM Configuration for Arrays (ORCA) to create the logical drives.

Offline Configuration of HP-UX 11i v1 or HP-UX 11i v2 Using Ignite-UX

To set up a Smart Array 6402 Controller as a boot device, you must install HP-UX 11i v1 or HP-UX 11i v2 on

one of the controller’s logical drives. Follow this procedure:

Step 1. Start Ignite-UX from the HP-UX 11i v1 or HP-UX 11i v2 Core OS Install and Recovery Media. The

Ignite-UX Welcome screen displays:

Welcome to Ignite-UX!

Use the <tab> key to navigate between fields, and the arrow keys

within fields. Use the <return/enter> key to select an item.

Use the <return/enter> or <space-bar> to pop-up a choices list. If the

menus are not clear, select the "Help" item for more information.

Hardware Summary: System Model: 9000/800/A500-5X

+---------------------+----------------+-------------------+ [ Scan Again ]

| Disks: 3 (204.6GB) | Floppies: 0 | LAN cards: 1 |

| CD/DVDs: 0 | Tapes: 0 | Memory: 4096Mb |

| Graphics Ports: 0 | IO Buses: 7 | CPUs: 1 | [ H/W Details ]

+---------------------+----------------+-------------------+

[ Install HP-UX ]

[ Run a Recovery Shell ]

[ Advanced Options ]

[ Reboot ] [ Help ]

Step 2. Select Run a Recovery Shell. The Recovery Shell screen displays:

NOTE: Creating the second RAM disc and mounting on /dev ...

* Generating device file for the second ramdisc...

* Loading mkfs to make a file system...

version 4 layout

15625 sectors, 15625 blocks of size 1024, log size 1024 blocks

unlimited inodes, largefiles not supported

15625 data blocks, 14529 free data blocks

1 allocation units of 32768 blocks, 32768 data blocks

last allocation unit has 15625 data blocks

* Loading mount to mount/dev/ram1 file system...

* Mounting /dev/ram1 file system succeeded!

* Copying /dev.old files back to /dev succeeds!

* Loading insf to create disk device files...

* Creating disk device files...

* Loading in a shell...

NOTE: Pushing a shell, you will have to use "reboot" to reboot the system when done. Use

the "loadfile" command to bring in more commands as you need them.