For systems with the Sun Storage 6 Gb SAS PCIe RAID Internal HBA, if you are not using a preinstalled OS from Oracle you must create a bootable volume on a drive before installing an OS. The system does not recognize a drive unless it has a volume on it created by the Sun Storage 6 Gb SAS PCIe RAID Internal HBA.
If there is more than a single volume on the drive that you intend to use as the boot drive, the volume that the OS will be installed on should be set as the boot device.
Before You Begin
You should have already selected a BIOS boot mode (UEFI or Legacy) from the BIOS Setup Utility.
Not all supported operating systems support UEFI mode. For a list of operating systems that support UEFI mode, see UEFI BIOS.
For instructions for switching the BIOS boot mode from UEFI to Legacy BIOS, or Legacy BIOS to UEFI, refer to the Oracle X4 Series Servers Administration Guide (http://www.oracle.com/goto/x86AdminDiag/docs).
See Setting Up Software and Firmware Using Oracle System Assistant.
The Oracle System Assistant System Overview screen appears.
The RAID Configuration screen appears.
This is the Sun Storage 6 Gb SAS PCIe RAID Internal HBA.
Oracle System Assistant supports RAID-0, RAID-1, and RAID-10.
The Create Volume dialog box appears.
Entering a volume name is optional. If you do not name the volume, Oracle System Assistant creates a volume without a name.
The Creating RAID Volume information box appears.
After the volume is created, it is displayed in the Created Volumes table.
The Volume Details dialog box appears.
If you did not enter a volume name earlier, the Volume Details dialog box gives you a second chance to do so. If you entered a volume name earlier, you can modify it here; however, you cannot delete the name entirely.
The Set Volume For Boot confirmation dialog appears.
The RAID Configuration screen appears and lists the RAID volume as the current boot device.
The Disk Details dialog box appears.
The Disk Details dialog box closes.
This completes the RAID configuration task.
To select any other Oracle System Assistant task, click the corresponding button in the left panel menu. For example, after configuring RAID, you might want to select the Install OS task and perform an operating system installation.
To return to the Oracle System Assistant System Overview screen, click System Information in the left menu panel.
To quit Oracle System Assistant, click Exit.
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