Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 Support Notes for HP Integrity Servers

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. You may then need to edit the device file name of the /boot/efi mount
point in the /etc/fstab file because the device file may have changed when the disks
were replaced.
• Load order of drivers may be altered
If you are transitioning to RHEL 5.3 from previous versions, recognize that the load order
of storage and networking drivers in this OS version is the reverse of the previous versions.
The numbers on the device file names for your NICs appear in the opposite order than the
previous versions of RHEL.
• Load of RHEL failed error
After installing the operating system, if a message similar to the following is displayed, you
must take action.
Loading.: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Load of Red Hat Enterprise Linux
failed: Not Found Press any key to continue
Execute the following steps from the EFI shell:
1. Enter the following commands to reconnect and regenerate all mappings:
Shell> reconnect -r
Shell> map -r
2. Boot to the operating system by exiting the shell by entering exit.
3. Select the EFI boot menu entry for the installed operating system.
If this does not resolve the problem, try turning off the boot entry caching with the EFI
ioconfig command:
Shell> ioconfig fast_init off
Fast initialization: Disabled
• Driver and disk device list order may change after installation
The driver load and disk device file name order during installation may not be the same as
it is when the installation has completed on the system. To avoid mount errors that occur
due to the change in the driver load order, use either Logical Volume Manager or disk labels.
• Installation on rx3600 or rx6600 may hang following the message: Retrieving
Installation Information ...
Installations on the rx3600 or rx6600 servers may hang when any of the I/O cards are in the
system:
AD167A,
AD168A,
AD385A
If this occurs, remove these cards from the system and reattempt the installation.
• IPv4 installation selections based on console type
When installing Linux using a graphics console, the base group of packages must be selected
for IPv4 networking to be operational. Conversely, installing using a text-based console does
not require a specific package group to be selected for IPv4 networking to be operational.
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