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Support Note for Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1 Operating System on Itanium® 2-based Systems Announcement 1 Support Note for Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1 Operating System on Itanium® 2-based Systems Announcement Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1 for the Itanium Processor has been optimized for use with HP Itanium 2-based workstations. Hewlett-Packard has certified Red Hat Advanced Workstation 2.1 and current errata (errata kernel 2.4.18-e.25) on Itanium workstations.
Support Note for Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1 Operating System on Itanium® 2-based Systems Support Note Contents Support Note Contents 1. Distributions Supported on Itanium 2-based Servers 2. Firmware Requirements and Manageability 3. Operating System Installation 4. Getting Updates from the Red Hat Network 5. Known Problems This Support Note explains how to use the HP Enablement Kit for Linux with your Red Hat Advanced Workstation 2.1 operating system installation CDs.
Support Note for Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1 Operating System on Itanium® 2-based Systems Distributions Supported on Itanium 2-Based Workstations Distributions Supported on Itanium 2-Based Workstations Hewlett-Packard has certified Red Hat Advanced Workstation 2.1 and current errata (errata kernel 2.4.18-e.25) on Itanium 2-based workstations. You can order Red Hat Advanced Workstation 2.1 at http://www.software.hp.com.
Support Note for Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1 Operating System on Itanium® 2-based Systems Firmware Requirements and Manageability Firmware Requirements and Manageability Firmware Requirements System Firmware revision 1.61 or greater is required for Linux to be installed on your Itanium 2-based system. To determine your current version, type "INFO FW" at the EFI Shell prompt. The firmware revision should be 1.61 or later. For more information on firmware, go to www.hp.com/go/bizsupport.
Support Note for Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1 Operating System on Itanium® 2-based Systems Operating System Installation Operating System Installation Before installing Red Hat Advanced Workstation 2.1, use the HP Enablement Kit CD for Linux (available at http://www.software.hp.com), which automates processes such as: • Configuration of storage controllers • Disk partitioning • Installation of service partition content • Linux installation from distributor media (i.e.
Support Note for Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1 Operating System on Itanium® 2-based Systems Operating System Installation 3. Insert the operating system CDs when prompted 4. Follow your operating system's instructions to complete installation. If your system came with Linux pre-installed, power on your workstation and configure it as prompted. The functionality provided by the enablement kit has already been applied. Recovering your operating system: 1.
Support Note for Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1 Operating System on Itanium® 2-based Systems Getting Updates from the Red Hat Network Getting Updates from the Red Hat Network After you install your operating system and reboot, login as root on the console (HP recommends using the graphical console rather than the text console) and run the rhn_register command to register your system with Red Hat Network.
Support Note for Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1 Operating System on Itanium® 2-based Systems Known Problems Known Problems 1. Graphics card compatibility between Itanium 2-based workstations and IA-32 systems. Graphics cards for Itanium 2-based workstations are not currently compatible with those on IA-32 systems. HP has tested and validated only the graphics card options that are available for purchase on Itanium 2-based systems.
Support Note for Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1 Operating System on Itanium® 2-based Systems Known Problems a. Modifying configuration options found in /usr/src/linux-version-versionnumber/configs to set values or make modules static or dynamically loadable. b. Changing boot-time parameters found in /usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.4.18/kernel-parameters.txt (with the kernel-doc .rpm) or in /usr/src/linux-2.4/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt (with the kernel-source /rpm.) 6.
Support Note for Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1 Operating System on Itanium® 2-based Systems Known Problems 9. USB-to-PS2 adapter failures. The A7782 USB-to-PS/2 adapter occasionally fails to connect at EFI when using system firmware revisions 1.44 and earlier. The symptom is the following message, which continues to print dots: "USB Keyboard Not Responding, Searching for another:.........." Use the power button to turn the system off and back on again to work around this situation.
Support Note for Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1 Operating System on Itanium® 2-based Systems Known Problems prompt timeout=50 default=linux image=vmlinuz-2.4.18-e.Nsmp label=linux initrd=initrd-2.4.18-e.Nsmp.img read-only root="LABEL=/" append="console=ttyS0,115200n8 hdd=ide-scsi" image=vmlinuz-2.4.18-e.N label=linux-up initrd=initrd-2.4.18-e.N.img read-only root="LABEL=/" append="console=ttyS0,115200n8 hdd=ide-scsi" ==== sample elilo.conf for mounting root partition by label ==== e.
Support Note for Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1 Operating System on Itanium® 2-based Systems Known Problems 13. Inconsistencies with man page directions for editing /etc/fstab. If you manually edit the /etc/fstab file to alter the device partition to be mounted as swap space, follow the fstab man page directions. The swapon manpages incorrectly describe swap filesystem entries in /etc/fstab as being labeled with"sw" when they should be labeled "swap".
