Re: Selecting boot adapter

On Tuesday 11 August 2009 15:39:05 Wagnell, Joseph M (IS) wrote:
> Thanks for the help,
> I ended up using sanbootcfg with Win2003. I did uninstall the boot
> support from Microsoft. However, I did figure out how to select the
> adapter for both the Microsoft boot support and sanbootcfg.
>
> A. Sanbootcfg (XP and Win2003)
> 	1. Adapter must be enabled
> 	2. Assign a static IP address to the adapter. Any comments would
> be great, but without a static IP, I could not get it to work.

Should not be necessary.  When sanbootconf runs (at system boot time) it will 
look for all adapters in the system, and if it finds one matching the iBFT 
created by gPXE, it will configure that adapter with the static IP address 
information taken from the iBFT.

> C. RedHat 5.3
> 	1. My install hard coded the adapter information in the init
> script.
> 	2. Not sure if iBFT is broken or ??? with RHEL 5.3. Comments?
> Suggestions? iBFT support would be preferable.

Red Hat has definitely at some point hardcoded everything into the initrd, 
rather than using the iBFT.  I thought they would have fixed this by now, 
though.  :(

Michael

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