Compaq LP8000-F1 manual Defining a Fibre Channel Drive as Boot Drive, Enabling Boot Bios

7-4Compaq StorageWorks 64-Bit PCI-To-Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter User Guide

Defining a Fibre Channel Drive as the

Boot Drive

The following is a summary of the procedures necessary to define a fibre channel hard drive as the boot drive in Windows NT 4.0.

1.Enable Boot BIOS.

2.Create an MS- DOS boot diskette.

3.Designate a fibre channel boot drive.

4.Enable HBA Boot BIOS on a fibre channel hard drive.

5.Install Windows NT 4.0 operating system.

Enabling Boot BIOS

1.Boot your computer in MS-DOS.

2.Insert Diskette #2 Firmware and Download Utility diskette in drive A.

3.Type this command: a:\>I386DNLD.EXE

The i386DNLD.EXE Main menu appears.

I386DNLD.EXE Main Menu

1.Test Host Adapters

2.Modify Test Options

3.Restart Host Adapters

4.Input/Output

5.Maintenance

6.Show Host Adapters Info

7.Quit