Dell Emulex Family of Adapters - Manual (Page 1746)

Boot Version 10.2 for NIC, iSCSI, FCoE, and RoCE Protocols User Manual P010097-01B Rev. A
Appendix C. Examples for Configuring and Booting UEFI NIC
UEFI NIC IPv6 PXE Setup Procedure for SLES11 SP2
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Configure ELILO Boot Loader
Retrieve ELILO from the installation DVD and create a configuration file:
1. Place the first SUSE Linux Enterprise Server install DVD in your DVD drive of the
PXE Server.
2. Open a root terminal.
3. Mount the boot image and copy the contents.
Brussels-sles11sp2:~ # mkdir /tmp/efi-img
Brussels-sles11sp2:~ # mount -o loop /media/<name of disc>/boot/x86_64/efi
/tmp/efi-img
Brussels-sles11sp2:~ # cp /tmp/efi-img/efi/boot/* /tftpboot
Create /tftpboot/elilo.conf with the Following Contents
Brussels-sles11sp2:~ # vim /tftpboot/elilo.conf
prompt
timeout=50
delay=100
image=/linux
label=suse
initrd=/initrd
append="install=ftp://[fc00:ba49:1625:fb0f::137]/sles ipv6only=1 sysrq=1
dd vga=791 manual=1 textmode=0 showopts"
Copy Installation Files for FTP Transfer
Brussels-sles11sp2:~ # cd /media/<name of disc>
Brussels-sles11sp2:~ # mkdir /srv/ftp/sles
Brussels-sles11sp2:~ # cp -r * /srv/ftp/sles
Configure FTP to Enable Support for IPv6
Brussels-sles11sp2:~ # vim /etc/vsftpd.conf
# Activate directory messages - messages given to remote users when they
# go into a certain directory.
#
dirmessage_enable=YES
#
# It is recommended that you define on your system a unique user which the
# ftp server can use as a totally isolated and unprivileged user.
#
nopriv_user=ftpsecure
#
# You may fully customise the login banner string:
#
#ftpd_banner="Welcome to FOOBAR FTP service."
#
# You may activate the "-R" option to the builtin ls. This is disabled by
# default to avoid remote users being able to cause excessive I/O on large