Support Note for SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 Service Pack 3 for the Intel Itanium 2 Processor Family HP Part Number: 5992-2329 Edition: 4, E0807
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Table of Contents Support Note for SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 Service Pack 3 for the Itanium® Processor Family.................................................................................................................5 Announcement.......................................................................................................................................5 Support Note Contents.................................................................................................................
Support Note for SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 Service Pack 3 for the Itanium® Processor Family Announcement Hewlett-Packard has certified SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 (SLES 9) Service Pack 3 (SP3) (kernel version 2.6.5-7.244, glibc 2.3.3-98.61) on HP Integrity servers, which are based on the Intel Itanium® 2-based processor. Use the HP Enablement Kit for Linux to prepare your server for operating system installation. It will prompt you to insert operating system CDs when ready.
Documentation for the HP Enablement Kit for Linux, including the kit's CD booklet and Release Notes, comes with your system. The Support Note for SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 for the Itanium Processor Family comes with your software order from HP. These documents, along with the SystemImager manual and the Installing HP Insight Management Agents on Integrity Servers Running Linux manual, are also available at the following Web site: http://www.docs.hp.
NOTE: When presented with a list of packages to update, a plus (+) sign to the left of the package indicates “select this package for update”. Issues and Known Problems 1. 2. 3. 4. HP recommends backing up all data and performing a new installation of SLES, rather than upgrading from a prior version. HP does not recommend using the HP Integrity Integrated Lights-Out (iLO 2) remote text console, or virtual KVM (vKVM) console, when installing Linux.
timeout=50 default=linux image=vmlinuz-2.4.18-e.25smp label=linux initrd=initrd-2.4.18-e.Nsmp.img read-only root="LABEL=/" append="console=ttyS0,115200n8 hdd=ide-scsi" image=vmlinuz-2.4.18-e.25 label=linux-up initrd=initrd-2.4.18-e.25.img read-only root="LABEL=/" append="console=ttyS0,115200n8 hdd=ide-scsi" ==== sample elilo.conf for mounting root partition by label ==== e. Manually verify LABEL"=/" entry is in the /etc/fstab.
causes a SCSI reset, the system will fail. Combining a Seagate drive with the ds2100 disk carrier causes electrical problems on the SCSI bus and subsequent reset attempts that also result in system failure. Do not use Seagate drives with this disk carrier. 11. This issue affects Linux running on the following systems: rx1600, rx1620, rx2600, rx4640, rx5670, rx7620, rx8620, and Superdome. The Management Processor UART on these systems does not supply the Carrier Detect signal.
c. d. Click SUSE LINUX under the "select operating system" heading on the specify operating system page. Scroll down the download drivers and software page for your specified card, and click the download button for the required driver. 16. Customers running an rx2620 or rx4640 utilizing the Dual-Core Intel Itanium 2 processor may experience a hang during the boot of the operating system. To resolve the issue, HP recommends that customers upgrade the operating system kernel to at least version 2.6.5-7.286.
