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Setting Up and Booting Fibre Channel Storage Devices

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Configuring the Boot Device Paths on the FC  

The OpenVMS I64 installation/upgrade procedure displays the name of a Fibre Channel disk as a boot device and prompts you to add the Boot Option. HP recommends that you accept this default. Alternatively, after the installation or upgrade completes, you can run the OpenVMS I64 Boot Manager to set up or modify a Fibre Channel boot device, as described in the following steps.

If your system is a member of the rx1600, rx2600, or rx4600 family of servers and no Fibre Channel boot device is listed in the EFI boot menu, you might experience a delay in EFI initialization because the entire SAN is scanned. Depending on the size of the SAN, this delay might range from several seconds to several minutes. Cell-based systems (the rx7620, rx8620, and the Superdome families of servers) are not affected by this delay. When booting OpenVMS from the installation DVD for the first time on any OpenVMS I64 system, you might also experience a similar delay in EFI initialization.

To use the OpenVMS I64 Boot Manager utility to set up or modify a Fibre Channel device, follow these steps:

1. If your operating system is not running, access the OpenVMS DCL prompt ($$$) from the OpenVMS operating system main menu by choosing Option 7 (Execute DCL commands and procedures). Otherwise, skip to the next step.
2. At the DCL prompt, enter the following command to invoke the OpenVMS I64 Boot Manager utility:

      $$$ @SYS$MANAGER:BOOT_OPTIONS

3. When the utility is invoked, the main menu is displayed. To add your system disk as a boot option, enter 1 at the prompt, as shown in the following example:

    
      OpenVMS I64 Boot Manager Boot Options List Management Utility
    
      (1) ADD an entry to the Boot Options list
      (2) DISPLAY the Boot Options list
      (3) REMOVE an entry from the Boot Options list
      (4) MOVE the position of an entry in the Boot Options list
      (5) VALIDATE boot options and fix them as necessary
      (6) Modify Boot Options TIMEOUT setting
    
      (B) Set to operate on the Boot Device Options list
      (D) Set to operate on the Dump Device Options list
      (G) Set to operate on the Debug Device Options list
    
      (E) EXIT from the Boot Manager utility
    
      You can also enter Ctrl-Y at any time to abort this utility
      Enter your choice: 1

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   While using this utility, you can change a response made to an earlier prompt by entering the caret (^) character as many times as needed. To abort and return to the DCL prompt, press Ctrl/Y.

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4. The utility prompts you for the device name. Enter the system disk device you are using for this installation. In the following example, the device is a multipath Fibre Channel device named $1$DGA1:.

      Enter the device name (enter "?" for a list of devices): $1$DGA1:

5. The utility prompts you for the position you want your entry to take in the EFI boot option list. Enter 1, as in the following example:

      Enter the desired position number (1,2,3,,,) of the entry.
      To display the Boot Options list, enter "?" and press Return.
      Position [1]: 1

6. The utility prompts you for OpenVMS boot flags. By default, no flags are set. Enter the OpenVMS flags (for example, 0,1), or accept the default (NONE) to set no flags as in the following example:

   Enter the value for VMS_FLAGS in the form n,n.
      VMS_FLAGS [NONE]:

7. The utility prompts you for a description to include with your boot option entry. By default, the device name is used as the description. You can enter more descriptive information, as in the following example:

      Enter a short description (do not include quotation marks).
      Description ["$1$DGA1"]: $1$DGA1 OpenVMS V8.2 System
   
      efi$bcfg: $1$dga1 (Boot0001) Option successfully added
      efi$bcfg: $1$dga1 (Boot0002) Option successfully added
      efi$bcfg: $1$dga1 (Boot0003) Option successfully added
      efi$bcfg: $1$dga1 (Boot0004) Option successfully added

8. After you successfully add your boot option, exit the utility by entering E at the prompt.

      Enter your choice: E

9. Log out from the DCL level and shut down the I64 system.

For more information about this utility, refer to the HP OpenVMS System Manager's Manual, Volume 1: Essentials .

Obtaining the IPF Offline Diagnostics and Utilities

Backing Up and Restoring the System Disk