This
section
includes:
• Starting
•
Starting
the
Con
fi
guration
protocol
To
con
fi
gure
the HBA
on
Linux,
access
the Con
fi
guration
protocol
as
follows:
1.
Use
the
fi
breutils
RPM
package
to
obtain
efiutil
(
efiutil.efi
)
and
the
auxiliary
driver,
as
described
in
2.
Power
on
the
server
to
the
EFI
shell.
3.
Start
efiutil
as
follows
(the
auxiliary
driver
is
automatically
loaded
if
it
is
needed):
a.
Set
the
drive
to
the
boot
device
(for
example,
fs1:).
b.
Change
to
the
directory
containing
efiutil
.
For
example,
enter:
cd
efi\qla2
xxx
c.
Run
e
fi
util:
efiutil.efi
Enter
Help
at
any
time
for
information
about
commands.
d.
Select
the
HBA
channel
that
you
want
to
con
fi
gure
by
selecting
adapter
.
e.
Select
con
fi
gure
.
4.
Con
fi
gure
the
HBA’s
NVRAM
by
selecting
the
menu
items
for
the
parameters
to
be
changed,
as
described
in
5.
Write
the
new
con
fi
guration
to
NVRAM.
6.
Exit
the
utility
(select
quit
).
7.
Reboot
the
system.
PCI-X
2.0
single-port
and
dual-port
4Gb
FC
adapters
for
Itanium
Linux
and
Windows
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