Support Notes for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
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Table of Contents Support Notes for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2.............................................................5 Announcement.......................................................................................................................................5 Support Note Contents...........................................................................................................................5 Distributions Supported on HP Integrity Servers...........................................
Support Notes for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 Announcement HP has certified Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.2 for the Intel® Itanium Processor® (kernel 2.6.18-92.el5.ia64, glibc-2.5-24.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 website: www.hp.
and tools such as HP system management software. For instructions, see Operating System Installation (page 6). The HP Smart Setup application is part of the HP Integrity Essentials Foundation Pack for Linux,, which ships with your system hardware. It is also available for free download under the Linux link at the following website: http://www.hp.com/go/integritylinuxessentials Documentation Red Hat provides its own installation guide for operating system installation.
Downloading RHEL from the Red Hat Website You can choose to download the RHEL operating system directly from the Red Hat website 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 website 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 5.2 before installation. The most recent copy of that document can be found at the following URL: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/ 2. 3. For pre-installed RHEL 5.2, HP uses the non-virtualized kernel, kernel-2.6.18-92.el5. HP does not pre-install the virtualized kernel, kernel-xen-2.6.18-92.el5. You can install a RHEL 5.2 virtualized kernel from a media kit or from the Red Hat Network (RHN).
a. b. c. Enter cd /etc/init.d To configure, enter chkconfig salinfod on To start salinfod without rebooting, enter service salinfod start 13. If you use cdrecord to burn a CD, you may need to eject the CD and reinsert before you can mount it. 14. This issue affects Linux running on the following systems: rx2620, rx2660, rx3600, rx4640, and rx6600. The Management Processor UART on these systems does not supply the Carrier Detect signal.
19. 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. Some versions of the kernel handle these arguments incorrectly, resulting in an MCA that crashes the system during boot. If the system boots successfully, there is no risk of a crash due to this problem. Booting with max_addr= or mem= is sometimes useful for debugging problems, but is not a tested feature.
29. If you have an AD385A 10GbE card in your configuration, ethtool may not always provide the correct link status. In some situations, ethtool may indicate that the link for this card is up after it has been taken down. This problem will be fixed in a future release. 30. 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.
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