Settings for using an hdlm device as a boot disk, See steps 1 to 16 in – HP XP P9500 Storage User Manual

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After completing the above procedure, you can perform an upgrade

installation of HDLM in a multi-path boot disk environment that uses a logical

volume (LVM2) on an HDLM device.

Settings for Using an HDLM Device as a Boot Disk

This subsection describes how to perform a new installation of HDLM in a

single-path boot disk environment that uses a SCSI device and how to set up

the environment.

Note that if the settings are incorrect, the OS might not start. For details

about what action to take if the OS cannot be started from an HDLM device,

see

Countermeasures for Unsuccessful Startup of the OS from an HDLM

Device on page 3-150

.

The name of the boot loader configuration file used in these procedures

differs depending on the boot loader and OS. The names of the boot loader

configuration files are listed in

Table 3-53 Names of Boot Loader

Configuration Files on page 3-106

.

Table 3-53 Names of Boot Loader Configuration Files

Boot loader

Configuration file name

GRUB

For Red Hat Enterprise Linux

/etc/grub.conf

For SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 10 or SUSE

LINUX Enterprise Server 11

/boot/grub/menu.lst

LILO

/etc/lilo.conf

ELILO

/etc/elilo.conf

To install HDLM in a boot disk environment that uses a SCSI device,

and set up the environment:

1

.

Log in to Linux as a user with root permissions.

2

.

If the OS is SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 10 SP3 or later, specify
multipath=off in the boot loader configuration file.
Make sure that multipath=off has been set in the kernel line of the

boot loader configuration file. The following example shows how to specify
multipath=off:

¢

When ELILO is used as the boot loader:

:

:

image = vmlinuz-2.6.16.60-0.54.5-default

label = 51

append = "splash=silent multipath=off"

description = Linux

initrd = initrd-2.6.16.60-0.54.5-default

root = /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-35001862001472c70-part12

multipath=off is set in the underlined section.

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Creating an HDLM Environment

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