Support Notes for Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS v.3 for the Itanium Processor on HP Integrity Servers
Support Note for Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS v.3 for the Itanium® Processor on HP Integrity Servers
Issues and Known Problems
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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 $1}' | sed -e
\ 's/[0-9]//g') and press
Enter.
2. Type O=$(grep /boot/efi /etc/fstab | awk '{print $1}' |
sed -e 's/[0-9]//g') and press
Enter.
3. Type sed -e "s,$O,$D,g" < /etc/fstab > /tmp/fstab and
press
Enter.
4. Type mv -f /tmp/fstab /etc/fstab and press
Enter.
b. Second, execute the commands below to address the swap and EFI boot
partition failures on the current boot instance:
1. Type swapon -a and press
Enter.
2. Type mount /boot/efi and press Enter.
5. If using an HP Procurve 4108gl switch with a heavily loaded system, you may experience
intermittent data truncation with FTP transfers through the network. To avoid this
problem:
a. Connect to the HP Procurve 4108gl switch via telnet or serial console and login.
b. From the switch command line interface, type config and press
Enter.
c. Type no int all lacp and press
Enter.
6. To obtain the driver that HP supports for the A6826A card:
a. From the page at http://www.hp.com, click on the “support and drivers” link.
b. Click the radio button preceding “Download drivers and software” on the Support
and Drivers page, type A6826A in the text box, and press
Enter.
c. Click “Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (Itanium)” under the “select operating system”
heading on the specify operating system page.
d. Click the download buttons for “Red Hat Enterprise 3.0 RPMs” and “Fibre Channel
Utilities” on the download drivers and storage for HP PCI-X Dual Channel
HBA-Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (Itanium) page.