Support Notes for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
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Table of Contents Support Notes for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1.............................................................5 Announcement.......................................................................................................................................5 Support Note Contents...........................................................................................................................5 Distributions Supported on HP Integrity Servers...........................................
Support Notes for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 Announcement HP has certified Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.1 for the Intel® Itanium Processor® (kernel 2.6.18-53.el5.ia64, glibc-2.5-18.ia64) on HP Integrity servers. For a list of the HP servers supported by RHEL 5, see the Linux Integrity certification matrix at the following Web site: www.hp.
CD to install additional utilities and tools such as HP system management software. For instructions, see Operating System Installation (page 6). The HP Smart Setup CD ships with your system hardware and is also available for free download under the Linux link at the following Web site: http://www.hp.com/go/integritylinuxessentials Documentation Red Hat provides its own installation guide for operating system installation.
Downloading RHEL from the Red Hat Web Site You can choose to download the RHEL operating system directly from the Red Hat Web site and not receive a media kit from HP containing the software. This scenario occurs when the media option AJR is deselected from the order. (The media kit option is always selected by default. ) It is necessary to register at the Red Hat Web site prior to download. Registration requires the installation number that each customer receives from HP when ordering either RHEL.
Known Issues 1. HP recommends that you review the latest Red Hat Release Notes for RHEL 5.1 before installation. The most recent copy of that document can be found at the following URL: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/ 2. HP has identified an issue with the RHEL 5.1 ext3 file system which under some conditions may result in system panics. Red Hat has provided an errrata to include a correction for this issue.
13. Correctable platform events such as single-bit memory errors are routinely logged into NVRAM. To ensure errors are logged into the /var/log file, configure the salinfod file to start at boot, executing the following commands as root: a. Enter cd /etc/init.d b. To configure, enter chkconfig salinfod on c. To start salinfod without rebooting, enter service salinfod start 14. If you use cdrecord to burn a CD, you may need to eject the CD and reinsert before you can mount it. 15.
19. The cdrecord program may hang when burning a CD-RW disk with unsupported media using certain models of CD/DVD-ROM Combo and DVD+RW drives shipped in rx2620 and rx4640 servers. Use only approved HP CD-RW media to prevent burn hangs. Try different brands of media if HP media is not available. 20. The ELILO bootloader can pass command-line options to the Linux kernel. The max_addr= and mem= options limit the amount of memory used by the kernel.
29. After installing the operating system, the system just installed may not boot or a previously installed system may boot instead. To resolve this problem, enter the following commands in the EFI shell: Shell> reconnect -r Shell> map -r Then reboot. This can be done by exiting the shell (using the exit command) and reselecting the EFI boot menu entry.
34. The lspci -v command may on occasion generate a large amount of output. This may be worked around by piping the output of the lspci command to the head command with the desired number of lines of output. Example for 100 lines of output: # lspci -v | head -n 100 35. The HP Integrity Essentials Foundation Pack for Linux (HPIEFPL) Support Pack does not currently support servers running Xen kernels for RHEL 5.1.
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