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Support Note for Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS v.3 for the Itanium® Processor on HP Integrity Servers Announcement 1 Support Note for Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS v.3 for the Itanium® Processor on HP Integrity Servers Announcement Hewlett-Packard has certified Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS v.3 Update 3 for the Itanium Processor® (kernel 2.4.21-20.EL, glibc-2.3.2-95.27) on HP Integrity servers. Use the HP Enablement Kit for Linux to prepare your server for operating system installation.
Support Note for Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS v.3 for the Itanium® Processor on HP Integrity Servers Support Note Contents Support Note Contents 1. “Distributions Supported on HP Integrity Servers” on page 5 2. “Operating System Installation” on page 6 3. “Registering Software and Getting Updates from Red Hat Network” on page 8 4.
Support Note for Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS v.3 for the Itanium® Processor on HP Integrity Servers Distributions Supported on HP Integrity Servers Distributions Supported on HP Integrity Servers Hewlett-Packard has certified Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS v.3 Update 3 for the Itanium Processor (kernel 2.4.21-20.EL, glibc-2.3.2-95.27) on Integrity servers. You can order Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS v.3 at http://www.software.hp.com.
Support Note for Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS v.3 for the Itanium® Processor on HP Integrity Servers Operating System Installation Operating System Installation Before installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS v.3 for the Itanium® Processor on your Integrity server, use the HP Enablement Kit for Linux CD, which automates processes such as: • Configuration of storage controllers • Disk partitioning • Linux installation from distributor media (i.e. CD-Rom) • Recovery of a pre-installed operating system.
Support Note for Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS v.3 for the Itanium® Processor on HP Integrity Servers Operating System Installation The booklet explains the automated processes behind each menu option, including hardware discovery, disk partitioning, and storage system options.
Support Note for Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS v.3 for the Itanium® Processor on HP Integrity Servers Registering Software and Getting Updates from Red Hat Network Registering Software and Getting Updates from Red Hat Network To ensure you have the most current version of software, use the following instructions to obtain updates from Red Hat Network. Pre-installed software versions may not be up to date. 1. Install Red Hat on your system and reboot. 2. Login as root on the console. 3.
Support Note for Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS v.3 for the Itanium® Processor on HP Integrity Servers Issues and Known Problems Issues and Known Problems 1. No support for uncertified .rpm packages. If you add uncertified .rpms to the operating system, the operating system will not be supported by Red Hat. Red Hat supports only .rpms bundled in supported Linux distributions for Integrity servers and official Red Hat Updates for those distributions. HP supports the Linux software it distributes. 2.
Support Note for Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS v.3 for the Itanium® Processor on HP Integrity Servers Issues and Known Problems NOTE If your system has already crashed, remove all drives connected to the A6826A and A7538A cards, reboot, then run the commands below. If your system doesn’t reboot after removing the drives connected to these two cards, remove all remaining external drives, then execute the commands below. a. Locate the devices with the pre-installed/restore image partitions: 1.
Support Note for Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS v.3 for the Itanium® Processor on HP Integrity Servers Issues and Known Problems Here, the EFI boot partition fails to mount because there is no mount-by-label support for vfat partitions. a. First execute the following commands, which modify the system configuration file /etc/fstab, to prevent the swap and mount errors on future reboots: 1. Type D=$(mount | grep 'on / ' | awk '{print $1}' | sed -e \ 's/[0-9]//g') and press Enter. 2.
Support Note for Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS v.3 for the Itanium® Processor on HP Integrity Servers Issues and Known Problems 7. Performing ifconfig down on an Integrity Server with an A5506B NIC card can cause your system to crash under certain circumstances. Upgrade your operating system to Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS v. 3 Update 4 via Red Hat Network for a driver patch that addresses this uncommon problem. When available, upgrade to Update 5 for a second driver patch. 8.
Support Note for Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS v.3 for the Itanium® Processor on HP Integrity Servers Issues and Known Problems The normal behavior on rx7620 and rx8620 servers is for an nPartition to be made inactive (all cells are in a boot-is-blocked state) when shutdown -h or poweroff is issued from the Red Hat Linux command line. This behavior is established with the “acpiconfig disable powerdown” setting, which is the normal setting for the single-pci-domain ACPI configuration.
Support Note for Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS v.3 for the Itanium® Processor on HP Integrity Servers Issues and Known Problems If CLM is greater than one percent of installed memory, use the parmodify command with the -m parameter to specify the CLM value, which should be 0 for Linux partitions. Alternately, you can also run the parremove command to remove the nPartition, then run the parcreate command to create a new nPartition with zero percent CLM.
