Owner's Manual
Table Of Contents
- PowerEdge T620, PowerEdge R720XD, PowerEdge R720, PowerEdge R620, PowerEdge M520, PowerEdge M620, PowerEdge M420, PowerEdge M820, PowerEdge M520, PowerEdge M420, PowerEdge M820, PowerEdge M620(VRTX), and PowerEdge M520(VRTX)
- "Dell Systems Build and Update Utility"
- "Optical Media (CD/DVD) Check"
- "Skip Optical Media (CD/DVD) Boot - Boot to Hard Drive"
- Server Operating System Installation
- Firmware Update
- Hardware Configuration
- View Hardware
Issue 3
Description: Installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system (all versions) is not supported on
any system having the following controllers:
•
Promise RAID
•
CERC SATA 2S in RAID mode
NOTE: In the above cases, option to install Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system, in the "Select
Operating Systems" page, does not exist.
Issue 4
Description: SBUU does not support Non RAID (Volume) mode on S100 or 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 the 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 to 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 or SLES11 Operating
Systems
Issue 1
Description: The SLES 10 or 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 SLES 10 or SLES 11 with only one configured RAID or SCSI controller. Configure
the other controllers after you install the SLES 10 or 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.
To work around the issue on PowerEdge R805, 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, 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 on PowerEdge M905, 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 BIOS updates for SLES 11.