Support Notes for Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS v.
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Table of Contents Support Notes for Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS v.4 Update 3 .............................5 Announcement.......................................................................................................................................5 Support Note Contents............................................................................................................................5 Distributions Supported on HP Integrity Servers.............................................................
Support Notes for Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS v.4 Update 3 Announcement HP has certified Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL4) AS v.4 Update 3 for the Intel® Itanium Processor® (kernel 2.6.9-34.EL; glibc-2.3.4-2.19) on HP Integrity servers rx1600, rx1620, rx2600, rx2620, rx4640, rx7620, rx8620, and Integrity Superdome. IMPORTANT Red Hat's Installation Guide is available on the Red Hat media that shipped with your server, or you can download it in PDF, RPM, or HTML format from https://www.redhat.
1. 2. 3. 4. Click on Software & Driver Downloads from the page at http://www.hp.com.. On the "Software & Driver Downloads" page, click the radio button preceding Download drivers and software, enter your server model number in the for product text box, and press Enter. On the "specify operating system" page, click cross operating system (BIOS, Firmware, Diagnotics, etc.) If your server does not have the current firmware, download it from the "download drivers & software" page.
entry on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS v. 3 partition because v. 3 and v.4 use the same name for the boot manager entry. There is no rename function, so from the Boot Option Maintenance Menu in the EFI Boot Manager, add another boot entry with the same boot parameters as the existing Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS v. 3 entry, but give it a different name. 6. 7. 8. If you are transitioning to Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS.
a. b. c. Type cd /etc/init.d and press Enter. To configure, type chkconfig salinfod on and press Enter. To start salinfod without rebooting, type service salinfod start and press Enter. 16. If you use cdrecord to burn a CD, you may need to eject the CD and reinsert before you can mount it. 17. This issue affects Linux running on the following systems: rx1600, rx1620, rx2600, rx2620, rx4640, rx7620, rx8620, and Superdome.
powered off. You can run the acpiconfig command with no arguments to check the current setting and the softpowerdown setting; however, softpowerdown information is displayed only when different from normal behavior. To power on hardware that has been powered off, use the PE command at the management processor command menu. To make an inactive nPartition active, use the management processor BO command to boot the nPartition past the boot-is-blocked state. 20.
