Creating a Bootable Drive in a Preboot Environment

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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

Creating a Bootable Drive (SPARC)

To Create a Bootable Drive (SPARC)

Using the OBP Environment to Set Up a Bootable Drive (SPARC)

To Prepare to Create a Bootable Drive (SPARC)

Creating an Alias for a Bootable Drive (SPARC)

To Create an Alias for a Bootable Drive (SPARC)

Next Steps

Creating a Bootable Drive (x86)

To Create a Bootable Drive (x86)

Using the BIOS Configuration Utility to Set Up a Bootable Drive (x86)

To Prepare to Use the BIOS Configuration Utility

Selecting a Bootable Drive (x86)

To Select a Bootable Drive (x86)

Next Steps

Validating the Oracle Solaris Labels of the HBA Drives

To Verify That the Oracle Solaris Label of a Drive is Valid

Next Steps

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 Known Issues

Appendix A HBA Specifications

Glossary

Chapter 3

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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