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Issue 4
Description: SBUU does not support Non RAID (Volume) mode on S100/S300 SWRAID controllers.
Issue 5
Description: While configuring the hard drive on a system to install a Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating
system, if the hard drive space on your system is used completely and the range specified in the GUI
against the "swap" partition is the same, for example: [1024 -1024] MB, the scroll bar remains on the left
side.
Issue 6
Description: On RHEL flavors, if an RPM Database corruption is encountered while installing OpenManage
Server Administrator (Server Administrator), enter the following command to rebuild the database:
rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
rpm --rebuilddb
You can then proceed with installing Server Administrator.
Open Issues and Resolutions for Novell SLES10/SLES11 Operating Systems
Issue 1
Description: The Novell SLES 10 / SLES 11 operating system installation may fail on systems equipped with
multiple RAID and/or SCSI controllers, 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
exist, install Novell SLES 10 / SLES 11 with only one configured RAID or SCSI controller. Configure the other
controllers after you install the Novell SLES 10 / SLES 11 operating system.
Issue 2
Description: When certain cards, notably Qlogic or Emulex fiber channel cards, are present in PowerEdge
R805 and PowerEdge M905 systems, SLES 11 (and other Linux kernels later than 2.6.27) may cause the
system to reboot when drivers for those cards are loaded.
The issue occurs because the Linux kernel changes the memory address assignments to certain add-on PCI
devices such that they overlap the second I/O APIC interrupt controller in the system.
Resolution: To work around the issue for the PowerEdge R805, you can set the Optical Drive Controller
(under Integrated Devices) to "On" in the system setup. This changes the system resource assignments
such that this issue does not occur. If this workaround fails, you can: Add the kernel parameter acpi=noirq
to the kernel command line to prevent the Linux kernel from using the I/O APIC interrupt controllers.
To work around the issue for the PowerEdge M905, you can: Add the kernel parameter acpi=noirq to the
kernel command line to prevent the Linux kernel from using the I/O APIC interrupt controllers.
A fix for this would be available in a future update BIOS revision for SLES 11.