Provisioning Red Hat Linux on a Sun Blade X6220 Server

To provision Red Hat Linux on a Sun Blade X6220 server, specify eth0 or eth1 for the bootnetworkdevice attribute of the load command.

To provision Red Hat Linux over the NEM0 interface, type the following command:

N1-ok> load server ipaddress osprofile myprofile bootip=ipaddress networktype=static ip=ipaddress 
       bootnetworkdevice=eth0 console=ttyS1 consolebaud=115200

To provision Red Hat Linux over the NEM1 interface, type the following command:

N1-ok> load server ipaddress osprofile myprofile bootip=ipaddress networktype=static ip=ipaddress 
       bootnetworkdevice=eth1 console=ttyS1 consolebaud=115200

If bootnetworkdevice is not specified, eth0 is taken as the default.

If One or More Ethernet PCI Express Modules are Present

The presence of PEM modules in the chassis affects the logical network interface name to which the NEM ports map when Linux is installed. The user is currently required to explicitly specify different logical interface names, depending on the number of PEM modules installed on the blade. In particular, the user must specify both bootnetworkdevice and networkdevice options as specified in the below tables. The following tables shows the valid values for 2-port PCI express modules:

Since the PEM configuration may vary, the general formula is given below in the following table:

You cannot configure different bootip and ip settings as part of the load command. When OS deployment completes, only one interface will be configured.

Linux deployment on a Sun Blade X6220 server goes into interactive mode if you do not specify the correct networkdevice option when PEMs are present.