Dell Mellanox Family of Adapters User Manual
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User Manual for Mellanox ConnectX®-3 10/40 Gigabit Ethernet Adapters for Dell PowerEdge Servers
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If the iso method above is not used, two different PXE server configurations are required
(PXELINUX booting labels) for each phase discussed herein (booting the installer and
post-installation boot)
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For booting the installer program off the TFTP server, please provide the client a path to the initrd
and linux kernel as provided inside SLES11SP3-kISO-VPI/pxeboot-install/ in the tgz above.
The below is an example of such label.
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For post-installation boot (booting the SLES 11 SP3 off the iSCSI storage using PXE services)
please provide the booting client a path to the initrd and linux kernel as provided inside SLES11SP3-
kISO-VPI/pxeboot/ in the tgz above.
The below is an example of such label.
The steps described in this document do not refer to an unattended installation with autoyast. For
official information on SLES unattented installation with autoyast, please refer to:
https://www.suse.com/documentation/sles11/book_autoyast/?page=/documentation/sles11/
book_autoyast/data/book_autoyast.html
The following is known to work with Mellanox NIC:
LABEL SLES11.3x64_manual_installl
MENU LABEL ^1) Install SLES11.3
kernel SLES11SP3-kISO-VPI/pxeboot-install/linux
append initrd=SLES11SP3-kISO-VPI/pxeboot-install/initrd install=nfs://12.7.6.30/pxerepo/
SLES/11.3/x86_64/DVD1/?device=p4p2
IPAPPEND 2
To install SLES11 SP3 over iSCSI over IPoIB, the following parameters need to be
added to the “append” statement above:
insmod=ib_ipoib insmod=libiscsi insmod=rdma_cm insmod=ib_iser
LABEL SLES11.3x64_iscsi_boot
MENU LABEL ^2) SLES11.3 iSCSI boot
kernel SLES11SP3-kISO-VPI/pxeboot/linux
append initrd= SLES11SP3-kISO-VPI/pxeboot/initrd net-root=iscsi:12.7.6.30::::iqn.2013-
10.qalab.com:sqa030.prt9 TargetAd-dress=12.7.6.30 TargetName=iqn.2013-
10.qalab.com:sqa030.prt9 TargetPort=3260 net_delay=10 rootfstype=ext3 rootdev=/dev/sda2
append initrd=SLES-11-SP3-DVD-x86_64-GM-DVD1/boot/x86_64/loader/initrd install=nfs://
<NFS IP Address>/<path the the repository directory>/ autoyast=nfs://<NFS IP Address>/
<path to autoyast xml directory>/autoyast-unattended.xml biosdevname=0
IPAPPEND 2