Release Notes

Operating System Installation Issues

● Installation of legacy Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating systems may fail due to lack of support for new hardware. Modify

the %post section of ks.cfg to update to a newer version of the kernel or use driver disk to install drivers.

● The Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system installation may fail on systems equipped with multiple RAID and/or SCSI

controllers, whether installed on the system board or in PCI slots. This failure may occur when using "Server Setup" or

performing a manual installation. When two or more RAID or SCSI controllers are present, install Red Hat Enterprise Linux

with only one configured RAID or SCSI controller. Configure the other controllers after you install the Red Hat Enterprise

Linux operating system.

● The virtual media should be disabled for SLES 12 OS installation on Dell’s 11th generation of PowerEdge servers.

● When deploying SUSE Linux Enterprise Server version 11 on PowerEdge M915 using DTK automated script (autoinst.xml), do

the following:

1. In device map section,

<device_map_entry>

</device_map_entry>

Change hd0 to /dev/sdc

2. In grub config section, change /dev/sda5 to /dev/sda6

3. If installer reports any missing packages, delete the packages from autoinst.xml.

Secure Boot limitation on UEFI mode:

On installation of the operating system in UEFI mode when secure boot BIOS option is enabled, DTK ELI is not supported. This is

due to the CentOS 6.5 core operating system limitation.

Instrumentation Issues

The "/opt/dell/srvadmin" directory in the DTK ISO image should be writable. It enables the instrumentation services to work

properly.

DTK tools installation limitation:

DTK tools installation is not supported on CentOS operating system.

Installation Prerequisites

Before extracting Deployment Toolkit components, ensure that you have:

● A workstation that has 512 MB RAM

● A writable CD drive and CD-writing software (optional)

● Network access

● A minimum BIOS version is recommended on some of the platforms for all the DTK options to work properly. In general, it is

a good practice to use the latest ("n") version of BIOS firmware or the "n-1" version that is available on "dell.com/support."

Installation Procedure

For complete installation and deployment instructions, see the Dell OpenManage Deployment Toolkit User's Guide and the Dell

OpenManage Deployment Toolkit Installation Guide available at dell.com/openmanagemanuals.