HP AB379A and AB379B PCI-X 2.0 Dual-Port 4Gb FC Adapters for Itanium Linux and Windows Installation Guide

Conﬁguring the HBAs

This section describes how to conﬁgure the HBAs on Linux systems using the Conﬁguration protocol

Driver Conﬁguration menu.

NOTE:

Thisprocessisforadvanceduserswhowanttocustomizetheconﬁguration of the HBAs and the

connected d

evices.

This section includes:

•

Starting the Conﬁguration protocol, page 19

•

Using the Driver Conﬁguration menu,page20

Starting the Conﬁguration protocol

To conﬁgure the HBA on Linux, access the Conﬁguration protocol as follows:

1. Use the ﬁbreutils RPM package to obtain efiutil (efiutil.efi) and the auxiliary driver, as

described in "Installing the ﬁbreutils RPM" on page 18.

2. Power on the server to the EFI shell.

3. Start efiutil as follows (the auxiliary driver is automatically loaded if it is needed):

a. Set the drive to the boot device (for example, fs1:).

b. Change to the directory containing efiutil. For example, enter:

cd efi\qla2xxx

c. Run eﬁutil:

efiutil.efi

Enter Help at any time for information about commands.

d. Select the HBA channel that you want to conﬁgure by selecting adapter.

e. Select conﬁgure.

4. Conﬁgure the HBA’s NVRAM by selecting the menu items for the parameters to be changed, as

described in "Using the Driver Conﬁguration menu" on page 20.

5. Write the new conﬁguration to NVRAM.

6. Exit the utility (select quit).

7. Reboot the system.

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