HP Insight Control for Linux 6.1 Release Notes

2.11.1.2 HP ProLiant DL180 G5 server cannot load captured SLES 10 SP2 image

A captured image does not load on ProLiant DL180 G5 servers, and you will see the following

message:

Error occured while finalizing deployment.

>> Output from log

>> df: `/old_root': No such file or directory

>> Could not find device for /boot: Not found or not a block device.

The RAM disk recognizes the disk as an sda device (that is, the first registered device). SLES

recognizes the disk as an hda device (that is, the master device on the first ATA channel). The

two are incompatible; so, when the image is deployed, Insight Control for Linux cannot determine

the correct disk.

2.11.1.3 Deployment of SLES 10 SP3 fails when logical volumes span disks on multiple controllers

Deploying an image on a managed system, running SLES 10 SP3, with multiple disks (each on

individual controller) fails because the order of the disks observed by the RAM disk does not

agree with SLES 10 SP3. As a consequence, the image is deployed to the wrong disks.

Corrective action: Place both disks on the same controller.

2.11.1.4 Log file for deployment issues

During a deployment, most messages are written to /tmp/rct-debug.log on the target server.

If deployment does not complete, use the console to examine this file.

For example, if the source managed system has two disks, but the target managed system only

has one disk, you might see the following message in /tmp/rct-debug.log:

yyyy/mm/dd time: Waking up

yyyy/mm/dd time: Capturing GrubBootLoader loader

yyyy/mm/dd time: Image Service genDeployCmds

yyyy/mm/dd time: genDeployCmds Failed : Message = target does not have enough drives for the image

2.11.2 Using the Partition Wizard

This section contains a note about the Partition Wizard.

2.11.2.1 Cannot create or rename swap partition

The Partition Wizard does not allow the creation or renaming of a swap partition. The Partition

Wizard insists that you specify a mount point, which swap partitions do not have.

Corrective action: HP suggests that you do not create the swap partition in an LVM volume,

and that you do not use the Partition Wizard for creating or renaming the swap partition.

2.12 Console management note

2.12.1 Telnet not supported on G7 servers

The telnet utility is not supported on HP ProLiant G7 series servers.

2.13 HP Insight Control virtual machine management notes

The HP Insight Control Release Notes contain release notes specific to HP Insight Control virtual

machine management. You can access this document from the following web address:

www.hp.com/go/insightcontrol/docs

Additional release notes for HP Insight Control virtual machine management are described in

the HP Systems Insight Manager Release Notes, located at the HP SIM Information Library. To

access it, select the link for the Systems Insight Manager from the following web address and

locate the link for that document:

18 Notes and corrective actions