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About This Document This document provides information specific to the installation and support of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.3 on HP Integrity Servers. Intended Audience This document is intended for system administrators responsible for installing, configuring, and managing Linux. Administrators must have knowledge of operating system concepts, commands, and configuration. Knowledge of Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) concepts is also helpful.
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1 Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 This support note provides the additional installation and support information for the use of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.3 on HP Integrity servers. This chapter provides the support and certification information related to RHEL 5.3 on HP Integrity servers. RHEL 5.3 Certification and Support Information HP has certified RHEL 5.3 for the Intel Itanium Processor (kernel-2.6.18-128.el5 and glibc-2.5-34) on HP Integrity servers.
2 Operating System Installation This chapter describes how to prepare your server for operating system (OS) installation, install the RHEL 5.3 OS on your HP Integrity server, and obtain OS updates directly from Red Hat. Installation Preparation Before you begin installing RHEL 5.3 operating system (OS) on your HP Integrity server, ensure that you have obtained: • all necessary installation documentation, and • the RHEL 5.3 for the Intel Itanium Processor installation media set.
Follow the instructions provided to download and use the RHEL 5.3 ISO images for the 64-bit Intel Itanium architecture. See the RHEL Documentation website at https://www.redhat.com/ docs/manuals/enterprise/ for a list of related RHEL 5.3 documents. Methods of Operating System Installation The are two methods that can be used to install RHEL 5.3 on your HP Integrity server as follows. NOTE: Installation of RHEL 5.3 on your HP Integrity server by the factory is not offered.
Registering Software and Getting Updates from Red Hat Network Ensure you have the most current version of software from the Red Hat Network, including patches for bug fixes, using the following instructions: 1. Install RHEL 5.3 on your system and reboot. 2. Log in as root on the console. 3. Using the registration card number that came with your RHEL 5.3 media, run the rhn_register command to register your system and create an account with Red Hat Network.
3 Recommendations, Limitations, and Known Issues This chapter contains recommendations, limitations, and known issues with the use of RHEL 5.3 on HP Integrity servers. Recommendations The following recommendations from HP for using RHEL 5.3 on HP Integrity servers should be observed. • Upgrading from earlier RHEL versions The RHEL 5 Installation Guide and Release Notes and other previous versions, included with each Red Hat Linux product release, contain upgrading instructions and suggestions.
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. — Select the Boot Configuration option then press ENTER to display the Boot Configuration menu. Select Console Configuration then press ENTER to select it. Select the VGA entry then press P. Press ESC to return to the previous menu. Press Y to save the new console setting. If the device is a serial device such as a terminal emulator, then set (or confirm) the firmware setting for the primary console to Serial as follows: 1.
Installation • Installation failure when using autopartition The installation of RHEL 5.3 might fail if using the autopartition function on a server with multiple disks. If you encounter this issue, remove all disks from the server except those on which you are installing RHEL 5.3. Replace the removed disks once the OS installation on the targeted disks is complete.
Kernel • HP SAS Integrated Raid Configuration Utility May Cause Kernel Panics The Integrated Raid Configuration Utility, cfggen, is a Linux command line utility that configures the Integrated Raid functionality of the HP Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) controllers that are used in LSI-1068-based controllers. The cfggen utility causes kernel panics when creating volumes with RHEL 5.3. Until this issue is resolved in the mpt driver, HP recommends that you use the EFI executable, cfggen.
If you plan to connect Fibre Channel storage arrays to HP Integrity servers running RHEL, you must connect through a Fibre Channel switch. For the BL860c Server Blade, you must use either the Fibre Channel switch module (AE370A, AE371A, or AE372A) or an external Fibre Channel switch. • Correctable hardware events logging configuration Correctable platform events, such as, single-bit memory errors, are routinely logged into NVRAM.
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