Creating a Bootable Drive in a Preboot Environment

Document Information

Using This Documentation

Chapter 1 HBA Overview

Chapter 2 Hardware Installation and Removal

Chapter 3 Creating a Bootable Drive in a Preboot Environment

Overview of Creating a Bootable Drive in a Preboot Environment

Utilities Overview

Methods For Creating a Bootable Drive

Creating a Bootable Drive (SPARC)

To Create a Bootable Drive (SPARC)

Using the FCode Utility to Create a Bootable Drive (SPARC)

To Prepare to Use the FCode Utility (SPARC)

To Create a RAID Volume With the FCode Utility (SPARC)

Creating an Alias for a Bootable Drive (SPARC)

To Create an Alias for a Bootable Drive (SPARC)

Creating a Bootable Drive (x86)

Using the UEFI Menu to Create a Bootable RAID Volume (x86)

To Verify the Drives and Their Slots (x86)

To Create a RAID Volume (x86)

To Confirm the RAID Volume Creation (x86)

Using the BIOS Configuration Utility (Legacy BIOS Booting) to Create a Bootable Drive (x86)

To Prepare to Use the BIOS Configuration Utility

To Create a RAID Volume With the BIOS Configuration Utility (x86)

Selecting a Bootable Drive (x86)

To Select a Bootable Drive (x86)

Installing the Oracle Solaris OS

To Prepare to Install the Oracle Solaris OS

To Install the Oracle Solaris OS

Next Steps

Chapter 4 HBA Software Installation

Chapter 5 Activating Volumes

Chapter 6 Known Issues

Appendix A HBA Specifications

Glossary

Chapter 3

Creating a Bootable Drive in a Preboot Environment

This chapter describes how to use the HBA for your boot device prior to installing an operating system (OS) on the system.

Note - If you are installing the HBA into a system that already has an OS installed, do not perform any procedures in this chapter. Instead, complete the HBA installation, as described in Hardware Installation and Removal.

This chapter contains the following topics:

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Creating a Bootable Drive in a Preboot Environment