Sun Microsystems 5945532 User Manual

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Sun Dual 10GbE SFP+ PCIe ExpressModule User’s Guide • August 2008

4. Plug the Ethernet cable into the card port.

5. Power on the system.

6. Press the F2 key or the Control-E keys to go to the BIOS.

7. Check and ensure that the boot order of the network devices is higher than the

hard drive.

8. Press the F10 key to save the boot configuration changes and exit.

The system should reboot after saving the boot configuration.

9. Press the F12 key to install the OS from the network.

If the cable is connected to the correct port, you should see the MAC address that
you assigned to your PXE server displayed by BIOS.

10. Install the ixgbe driver and configure the Ethernet adapter.

11. After the Linux OS install completes, use the BIOS to change the boot device

priority to Boot from Hard Disk in order to boot up the newly installed OS.

Unless the boot device priority is changed, the OS installation process will repeat.

image :

pxe-mac-addr

PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable

PXE-MOF: Exiting Intel Boot Agent.

NVIDIA Boot Agent 217.0513

Copyright (C) 2001-2005) NVIDIA Corporation

Copyright (C) 1997-2000) NVIDIA Corporation

PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable

PXE-MOF: Exiting Intel Boot Agent.

NVIDIA Boot Agent 217.0513

Copyright (C) 2001-2005) NVIDIA Corporation

Copyright (C) 1997-2000) NVIDIA Corporation

PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable

PXE-MOF: Exiting Intel Boot Agent.

Intel (R) Boot Agent GE v1.2.43 Beta-1

Copyright (C) 1997-2006) Intel Corporation

CLIENT MAC ADDR; 00 15 17 13 90 00 GUID: 00000000 0000 0000 0000

00144F26E0B7

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