HP Insight Control for Linux 7.0 User Guide

• You registered the PSP in the repository and associated it with the OS, and you manually
copied the associated PSP file to the repository path the registration process created.
• If you are installing a 32-bit operating system on a managed system that has more than 64
GB of memory, be sure to specify the mem=60gb kernel option in the kernel append line
during installation.
Additional prerequisites might apply for specific servers. See the following section, if it applies to
your environment.
9.3.1 Additional prerequisites for certain ProLiant servers
Some server/operating system combinations require an updated boot RAM disk (initrd). These
servers are identified in the HP Insight Control for Linux Support Matrix.
To perform a RHEL Kickstart or SLES AutoYaST installation on these servers, you must replace the
initrd supplied with the standard Red Hat Linux or SUSE Linux distribution with a customized
initrd provided by HP. Download the customized initrd from the web address that corresponds
to the server and operating system. These initrd files have additional support for the servers;
you can use them to install the corresponding OS on the other hardware platforms as well.
Recent SLES operating systems use a driver kit ISO image, which might include an updated kernel.
Table 15 Download web address for customized initrd files and Driver Kit images
Download addressArchitectureOperating system
ftp.hp.com/pub/softlib2/software1/pubsw-linux/p1930859030/v50002x86RHEL Advanced
Server/Enterprise
Server 4.7
ftp.hp.com/pub/softlib2/software1/pubsw-linux/p207307759/v50003x86_64
Not requiredx86 and x86_64RHEL 4.8
ftp.hp.com/pub/softlib2/software1/pubsw-linux/p535147961/v62036x86
RHEL 5.4
ftp.hp.com/pub/softlib2/software1/pubsw-linux/p2057226266/v62035x86_64
ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softlib2/software1/pubsw-linux/p1409428258/v68232x86
RHEL 5.5
ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softlib2/software1/pubsw-linux/p1814178657/v68229x86_64
ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softlib2/software1/pubsw-linux/p1849407122/v68234x86
RHEL 5.6
ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softlib2/software1/pubsw-linux/p1559553493/v68230x86_64
Not requiredx86 and x86_64RHEL 5.7
ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softlib2/software1/pubsw-linux/p801903606/v68235x86
RHEL 6
ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softlib2/software1/pubsw-linux/p1218550501/v68231x86_64
Not requiredx86 and x86_64RHEL 6.1
ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softlib2/software1/pubsw-linux/p71500683/v68242x86
SLES 10 SP3
ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softlib2/software1/pubsw-linux/p1520693132/v68241x86_64
Not requiredx86 and x86_64SLES 10 SP4
Not required; see “Copying SLES 10 SP4 or SLES 11 SP1 (KISO) into the
repository” (page 53)
x86 and x86_64SLES 11 SP1
Before you can use Insight Control for Linux to install Linux on these servers, you must:
• Download the files and place the customized, HP-provided initrd and the kernel into the
appropriate directories under /opt/repository/boot, overwriting the original initrd
supplied with the distribution of the corresponding Linux operating system.
For example, to download the initrd and kernel for a SLES 11 SP1 (x64) operating system,
the steps would resemble the following:
92 Installing operating systems on managed systems