Support Notes for Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES v.4.
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Table of Contents Support Notes for Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES v.4.5....................................................5 Announcement.......................................................................................................................................5 Support Note Contents...........................................................................................................................5 Distributions Supported on HP Integrity Servers...............................................
Support Notes for Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES v.4.5 Announcement HP has certified Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL4) ES v.4.5 for the Intel® Itanium Processor® (kernel 2.6.9-55.EL; glibc-2.3.4-2.36) on HP Integrity servers. For a list of the HP servers supported by RHEL4, see the Linux on Integrity certification matrix at the following Web site: www.hp.
CD to install additional utilities and tools such as HP system management software. For instructions, see Operating System Installation (page 6). The HP Smart Setup CD ships with your system hardware and is also available for free download under the Linux link at the following Web site: http://www.hp.com/go/integritylinuxessentials Documentation Red Hat provides its own installation guide for operating system installation.
Downloading RHEL from the Red Hat Web Site You can choose to download the RHEL operating system directly from the Red Hat Web site 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 Web site prior to download. Registration requires the activation code that each customer receives from HP when ordering either RHEL.
Known Issues 1. HP does not recommend using the drivers in the RHEL4.5 installation for the A6826A, A7538A, AB379A, AB379B, AD167A, AD168A, AD300A, AE311A, A8002A, or A8003A cards. To obtain the drivers that HP supports for these cards: a. From the following Web site, click on the "Driver Downloads" link: http://www.hp.com b. c. d. 2. 3. 4. 5. Click the radio button preceding "Download drivers and software" on the Software & Driver Downloads page, enter the card number in the text box.
extract kernel-version.src.rpm from the source .rpm packages. Refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES v. 4 Release Notes for instructions. NOTE: These instructions are in the file RELEASE-NOTES-en, but not in the file RELEASE-NOTES. 11. 32-bit emulation is not automatically installed with Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES v. 4. To obtain this functionality, install the ia32el package from the Intel Itanium Extras CD.
19. The cdrecord program may hang when burning a CD-RW disk with unsupported media using certain models of CD/DVD-ROM Combo and DVD+RW drives shipped in rx1600, rx1620, rx2600, rx2620, and rx4640 servers. Use only approved HP CD-RW media to prevent burn hangs. Try different brands of media if HP media is not available. 20. System panics may occur on Integrity servers running Linux that have fibre channel (FC) storage arrays directly connected.
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