Further, the decision tree for network booting Itanium-based systems assumes there is only one DHCP server on your subnet configured to answer boot requests, and that it is running HP-UX.
If you want to boot a system without using the network and your Ignite-UX server, see the decision tree shown in Figure 34 (page 98).
NOTE: A lot of clients can only be booted using their built-in LAN interfaces. Other LAN interfaces might not be supported for boot. For more information about LAN interface boot support, consult the hardware documentation for the system or the add-in LAN card.
Use the following decision tree when configuring an Ignite-UX server for PA-RISC clients:
Figure 5 Decision Tree When Configuring a Server for Booting PA-RISC Systems
PA-RISC
Network | NO | See the decision tree |
booting | | for booting stand alone |
|
support ? | | systems |
| YES | | |
| | |
| | | |
| Registered | NO | Configure |
| instl_boottab |
| clients ? | | |
| | | for anonymous clients |
| | | |
| | | | |
YES
Configure
instl_boottab
for registered clients
Configure instl_boottab for registered clients - To network boot registered PA-RISC clients, the server uses the instl_bootd daemon to answer boot requests, and has clients’ IP addresses and LAN addresses registered in /etc/opt/ignite/instl_boottab. The process of configuring an Ignite-UX server for registered PA-RISC clients is described in “Configuring the Ignite-UX server for PA-RISC clients” (page 31). See the Ignite-UX Quick Start Guide available at http:// www.hp.com/go/ignite-ux-docs if you are new to HP-UX.
Configure instl_boottab for anonymous clients - Network booting anonymous PA-RISC clients is similar to booting registered PA-RISC clients; the difference is that some IPs in the /etc/opt/ ignite/instl_boottab file are not associated with any clients’ MAC addresses, and so may be assigned to clients as requests come in. See “Configuring an Ignite server to boot anonymous PA-RISC clients” (page 43) for more information.
See the decision tree for booting stand alone systems - This decision tree can be found in Figure 34.
Use the decision tree below when configuring an Ignite-UX server for Itanium-based clients.
26 Making configuration decisions for Ignite servers