Dell EMC PowerEdge Systems running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (x86_64, x86) Installation Instructions and Important Information
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Contents 1 Installation instructions and important information.........................................................................................6 Overview............................................................................................................................................................................. 6 Latest available operating system....................................................................................................................................
Ethtool reports 10 GbE port speed instead of 25 GbE when using Mellanox mlx5_core driver.......................16 Resolved issues in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7.......................................................................................................... 16 Invalid IRQ (255) is assigned to Emulex card when NPAR-EP is enabled...........................................................16 Known issues in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7...................................................................
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 kickstart installation may fail.................................................................................. 25 Network connections display the last used status as never in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.............................25 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 displays a dbus netlink poll error after installation............................................... 25 Network manager error in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 operating system log........................................
1 Installation instructions and important information Overview This document provides the following information: • Instructions for installing and reinstalling the operating system on your Dell EMC system. • Sources of additional information. Latest available operating system The latest update to Red Hat Enterprise Linux is 6.10. This update provides fixes for certain issues that are found in the previous releases.
Bootable disk size By default, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 configures partitions in the MS-DOS master boot record (MBR) format. The MBR scheme limits the size of the boot disk (physical or virtual) to 2.2 TB. Use the GUID partition table (GPT) on the boot disk while installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 for disks larger than 2.2 TB. For more information on setting up GPT during installation, see Installing In The UEFI Mode. Table 2.
Mount Point Size (MB) Partition Type Volume Group Swap automatic Linux swap LogVol01 /usr 6144 ext4 LogVol02 /tmp 3072 ext4 LogVol03 /var 8192 ext4 LogVol04 /home 4096 ext4 LogVol05 NOTE: The size of the default Logical Volume Management (LVM) partitions (such as, /usr, /tmp) is based on a single 36 GB hard drive.
NOTE: The Dell EMC Systems Management Tools and Documentation media simplifies operating system installation and contains the latest drivers at the time you purchased your system. The media automatically installs drivers and any Dell EMC‑specific updates not included with the Red Hat media. Save your Dell EMC Systems Management Tools and Documentation media in case you need to reinstall the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system.
5 Click Next. 6 Select BIOS or UEFI when prompted, and click Next. 7 Insert the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 installation media and click Next. 8 Click Finish to reboot the system and continue with the operating system installation by booting to the operating system media. NOTE: Upon reboot, the system prompts you to press a key to boot to the operating system media. If you do not press a key, the system boots to the hard drive. NOTE: All the copied drivers are removed after 18 hours.
Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 in the UEFI mode CAUTION: Back up all the data from the system before installing or upgrading the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 operating system. 1 Ensure that your system is configured to boot in the UEFI mode. For more information on how to enable the UEFI mode, see your systems documentation at www.dell.com/manuals. 2 Insert the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 media in the optical drive. NOTE: Ensure that the first boot device is your optical drive.
Now, you cannot install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 through an iSCSI offload hardware. You can install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 either through the iSCSI software stack (referred to as software initiator) or the iSCSI HBA (referred to as hardware initiator). Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 using the software iSCSI initiator CAUTION: Back up all the data from the system before installing or upgrading the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 operating system.
NOTE: For more information on add-on drivers, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux driver update program at www.access.redhat.com. Updating your system packages using the Red Hat Network NOTE: To update your system with the latest operating system packages using RHN (Red Hat Network) service, see www.rhn.redhat.com. Red Hat periodically releases software updates to fix issues, address security issues, and add new features and hardware support.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux supports FCoE functionality in Broadcom 57810 Broadcom 57810 is the Converged Network Controller, which supports FCoE functionality. NOTE: Support for 10 GB Ethernet and iSCSI functionalities is available in Broadcom 57810. To enable FCoE on Broadcom 57810, ensure that the firmware version is 7.2.11 or greater. You can download the latest firmware from www.dell.com/support. Broadcom 57810 requires bnx2fc.ko driver version 1.0.10 or greater to enable FCoE.
Cause RHEL 6.9 does not have the inbox driver for QLogic QL41162 10 GbE and QL45212-DE 25 GbE devices. Log in to iSCSI LUN fails on the QLogic QL41162 10 GbE, QL41112 10 GbE and QL41262 25 GbE devices Description RHEL 6.9 does not log in to iSCSI LUN for QL41162 10 GbE, QL41112 10 GbE, and QL41262 25 GbE devices. iSCSI boot fails for these devices. Cause Log in to iSCSI LUN fails because of few upstream patches are missing in RHEL 6.9 iSCSI package. Known issues in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
Ethtool reports 10 GbE port speed instead of 25 GbE when using Mellanox mlx5_core driver Description On Dell EMC PowerEdge servers installed with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8, the Mellanox ConnectX-4 Lx 25 GbE Ethernet adapter link speed is reported as 10 GbE instead of 25 GbE. Cause The Ethtool utility does not have required patches to identify 25 GbE speed. Workaround This error message can be ignored because there is no functionality loss. Resolved issues in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
Cause The BIOS APIC table has static entries for the highest configuration of the processor supported on the system. For example, a system supports 16 core processor, however if the system has a 14 core processor populated, then APIC IDs 15 and 16 are available in the BIOS APIC table, and the kernel tries to enable the core processor. But, physically a 14 core processor is available, and APIC IDs 15 and 16 are not initialized, and hence the error occurs.
can be ignored for the specific code path. When the flag is ignored, the timer hardware might be set to an incorrect timeout value. This incorrect timeout value might be over 10 seconds and during this time no kernel timer functions can be run. Workaround: Upgrade from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6. Unable to Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 with an existing brtfs partition Description: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
Cause The DDR DMA test is executed after the external loopback test. On certain physical layers the loopback test might take up to 15 seconds. The driver polls for the completion of the test for 12 seconds only and the DDR DMA fails in cases where the loopback takes up to 15 seconds. Using IPv6 with Mozilla Firefox displays certification error Description A certification error is displayed when using the Mozilla Firefox browser with IPv6, on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x, to access a HTTPs server.
Cause: DMAR on g4x/gm45 graphic processing unit is not fully supported. Workaround: Use “intel_iommu=igfx_off” kernel parameter to avoid errors. Xserver crashe, while booting Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 after installation Description: During the first boot of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 on Windows 2012 R2 Virtual Machine, the Xserver crashes. Cause: The vesa driver is used instead of hyperv_fb driver during the installation.
Lifecycle Controller (USC based installation) deployment fails when installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x Description Lifecycle Controller OS Deployment fails with the error message install exited abnormally when installing RHEL 6.x. The deployment fails when the number of RPMs in the disk drive is greater than 25. Cause The installation fails when the number of RPMs in the disk drive is greater than 25. The explodeRPM() function call in the anaconda code fails to free the resources.
For more information, see the Deployment Guide at www.access.redhat.com/documentation. This issue is fixed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5. Cause This issue occurs because the Network Manager is used to configure the network. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 installation on 10 GB iSCSI LUN from an EQL array hangs while creating a file system Description Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 on 10 GB iSCSI LUN from an EQL array hangs while creating a file system. This issue also occurs on data LUN.
Known issues in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 System monitor displays incomplete processor information Description The System Monitor does not display information for systems with processor cores greater than 20 (approximately). Workaround For complete processor information in the /proc file system, run the following command: Cat /proc/cpuinfo This issue is also seen in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3.
register) is also configured with offset 0. On upstream, kernels are available with the IBS support, but without the fixes. This leads to a conflict. IBS initialization fails if configured later. NOTE: Currently, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 does not support IBS. For more information, see the Kbase article 234583 at: www.access.redhat.com. Known issues in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
Resolved issues in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 kickstart installation may fail Description Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 fails to install using the kickstart method. After rebooting, it displays the following error: Specified BIOS disk 80 cannot be determined. Kickstart fails when onbiosdisk=80 is used in kickstart file. The onbiosdisk forces the partition to be created on a particular disk as discovered by the BIOS.
NOTE: There is no loss in functionality. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 stops responding when iDRAC6 is reset Description Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 stops responding when iDRAC6 is reset on PowerEdge systems. Cause This issue occurs due to the USB error handling code. Known issues in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 displays a no DIMM labels error message in the /var/log/messages log file Description After Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
NOTE: This issue is fixed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4. Resolved issues in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 Errors found in command cat/proc/interrupts in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Description An error is displayed while running the command cat/proc/interrupts in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Cause The ERR interrupt occurs when the machine check code loads and initializes the thermal monitoring interrupt on each core APIC. The BIOS generates a spurious interrupt on initialization.
Cause gnome-bluetooth module was installed during a standard installation. Network Manager triggers the warning events through gnome-bluetooth module. Error message on starting IPMI drivers while installing OMSA Description On starting the IPMI service on PowerEdge R620, T620, M620, R720, and R720xd systems, the system log displays the message: Could not enable interrupts, failed set, using polled mode. Workaround This is working as designed. This is addressed in a later version of the iDRAC firmware.
tg3 driver fails post Red Hat Network update Description When you already have a KMOD driver, and you update Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 to a newer kernel from Red Hat Network (RHN), the tg3 driver reverts to a native version. Workaround A fix will be available in a later Red Hat Enterprise Linux update. Cause The tg3 driver does not follow the SPEC file format recommended by Red Hat. Kernel panic occurs when GPGPU C2075 is installed on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The Updates Disk pop-up is displayed. 10 Press OK and follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation. NOTE: This issue has been resolved in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2. Cause During Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 installation, the installer tries to create a mount point (\boot\efi) on any exposed vFAT partition. Driver installation fails during Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 installation NOTE: This issue affects USC-based installations. Description During the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
GHES: Generic hardware error source: 32994 notified via NMI is not supported! GHES: Generic hardware error source: 227 notified via NMI is not supported! Workaround This will be fixed in a future release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Cause This issue occurs because Non Maskable Interrupt (NMI) is not supported. Resolved issues in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
OpenManage installation does not respond on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Description Dell EMC OpenManage installation does not respond on PowerEdge R905, 2970, 6950, and T605 systems. Workaround dcdbas is a native driver in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1. To resolve this issue, download the dcdbas driver at www.dell.com/support. Cause This issue is caused due to a defect in the dcdbas driver.
Login using the following command fails: #iscsiadm -m discovery -t st -p -I iface1 -o new#iscsiadm -m discovery -t st -p -I iface1 -l Workaround Set net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter to 0 or 2 in /etc/sysctl.conf, and reboot the system. Cause In the 2.6.31 kernel, the net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter = 1 behavior has changed to be more strict in the I/O.
2 Getting help Topics: • Contacting Dell EMC • Related documentation • Documentation resources • Download the drivers and firmware • Documentation feedback Contacting Dell EMC Dell EMC provides several online and telephone-based support and service options. Availability varies by country, region, and product, and some services may not be available in your area. To contact Dell EMC for sales, technical assistance, or customer service issues, see www.dell.com/contactdell.
Documentation resources This section provides information about the documentation resources for your server. Table 4. Additional documentation resources for your server Task Document Setting up your server For information about installing the www.dell.com/poweredgemanuals server into a rack, see the Rack documentation included with your rack solution or the Getting Started Guide that is shipped with your server.
Task Document Location EMC OpenManage Essentials, see the Dell EMC Dell.com/ openmanagemanuals > OpenManage Essentials User’s Guide. For information about installing and www.dell.com/serviceabilitytools using Dell SupportAssist, see the Dell EMC SupportAssist Enterprise User's Guide. For understanding the features of Dell EMC Lifecycle Controller (LC), see the Lifecycle Controller User's Guide. www.dell.
Download the drivers and firmware It is recommended that you download and install the latest BIOS, drivers, and systems management firmware on your system. Ensure that you clear the web browser cache before downloading the drivers and firmware. 1 Go to Dell.com/support/drivers. 2 In the Drivers & Downloads section, enter the Service Tag of your system in the Enter a Dell Service Tag, Dell EMC Product ID, or Model field, and then click Submit.
