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About This Document This document provides information specific to the installation and support of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.7 on HP Integrity Servers. Intended Audience This document is intended for system administrators responsible for installing, configuring, and managing Linux. Administrators must have knowledge of operating system concepts, commands, and configuration. Knowledge of Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) concepts is also helpful.
Related Information — The Red Hat website: http://www.redhat.com — The Red Hat Enterprise Linux for HP ProLiant, Bladesystem & Integrity Servers Overview & Features website: http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/linux/redhat/rhel/index.html — The HP Insight Foundation Suite for Integrity with Linux website: http://h20338.www2.hp.com/integrity/w1/en/software/essentials-linux-on-integrity.html — The Intel® EFI website: http://developer.intel.
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1 Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7 This support note provides the additional installation and support information for the use of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.7 on HP Integrity servers. This chapter provides the support and certification information related to RHEL 5.7 on HP Integrity servers. RHEL 5.7 Certification and Support Information HP has certified RHEL 5.7 for the Intel Itanium Processor (kernel-2.6.18-274 and glibc-2.5-65) on HP Integrity servers.
2 Operating System Installation This chapter describes how to prepare your server for operating system (OS) installation, install the RHEL 5.7 OS on your HP Integrity server, and obtain OS updates directly from Red Hat. Installation Preparation Before you begin installing RHEL 5.7 operating system (OS) on your HP Integrity server, ensure that you have obtained: • • all necessary installation documentation, and the RHEL 5.7 for the Intel Itanium Processor installation media set.
Downloading RHEL from the Red Hat Web site In the event that you chose to not receive a media kit from HP containing the RHEL software or you need to create a copy of the RHEL 5.7 media, you must download the RHEL operating system directly from the Red Hat website. NOTE: It is necessary to register at the Red Hat website prior to download, which requires the activation code that you received from HP when ordering RHEL. Register and log in at the Red Hat Network website: www.redhat.
Completing the Installation Once you have installed RHEL 5.7 using one of the previously described options, you can now register your product with Red Hat and receive any updates that are available, see “Registering Software and Getting Updates from Red Hat Network” (page 13) After you install RHEL 5.
3 Recommendations, Limitations, and Known Issues This chapter contains recommendations, limitations, and known issues with the use of RHEL 5.7 on HP Integrity servers. Recommendations The following recommendations from HP for using RHEL 5.7 on HP Integrity servers should be observed. • Upgrading from earlier RHEL versions The RHEL 5 Installation Guide and Release Notes and other previous versions, included with each Red Hat Linux product release, contain upgrading instructions and suggestions.
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. — Select the Boot Configuration option then press ENTER to display the Boot Configuration menu. Select Console Configuration then press ENTER to select it. Select the VGA entry then press P. Press ESC to return to the previous menu. Press Y to save the new console setting. If the device is a serial device such as a terminal emulator, then set (or confirm) the firmware setting for the primary console to Serial as follows: 1.
Installation • Installation failure when using autopartition The installation of RHEL 5.7 might fail if using the autopartition function on a server with multiple disks. If you encounter this issue, remove all disks from the server except those on which you are installing RHEL 5.7. Replace the removed disks once the OS installation on the targeted disks is complete.
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Go to the http://www.hp.com/support/itaniumservers/ web site. Click on the appropriate product link for your server. Click the Download drivers and software link. Select a software/driver language from the list. Click on the appropriate Linux distribution link. All of the available driver and software updates are provided in a categorized listing for your selection. 6. 7. Click the Download button for the latest MPTLinux Driver Update for Integrity Servers driver to download the tar file.
If this occurs, try one of the following methods to resolve the problem: — — — Change the memory configuration so that the memory in each cell is equal Change the CLM (Cell Local Memory) setting to increase the size of contiguous memory. If the system was working previously, at the EFI prompt, run the pdt command. If there are PDT entries, consider replacing the bad memory identified.
