Support Notes for SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 10 Service Pack 1 for HP Integrity Servers HP Part Number: 5013-8832 Edition: 5, E1107
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Support Notes for SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 10 Service Pack 1 for HP Integrity Servers Announcement Hewlett-Packard has certified SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server® 10 Service Pack 1 (SLES 10 SP1) (kernel version 2.6.16.46-0.12, glibc 2.4-31.30) on HP Integrity servers, which are based on the Intel® Itanium® 2-based processor. Use the HP Smart Setup EBSU application to prepare your server for operating system installation. It will prompt you to insert operating system media when ready.
NOTE: HP recommends backing up all data and doing a cold install of SLES if upgrading from SLES8 or SLES9. Recovering your operating system: The HP Integrity Essentials Foundation Pack for Linux media and HP Smart Setup CD ship with your Integrity server. Contact your HP sales representative to obtain the foundation pack kit if it is not with your order. You can download the HP Integrity Essentials Foundation Pack for Linux and updates for free from the Linux link at: http://www.hp.
NOTE: When presented with a list of packages to update, a plus (+) sign to the left of the package indicates “select this package for update.” Known Issues 1. If you have a Qlogic FibreChannel card, you can obtain the latest driver from HP. To obtain the driver: a. From the page at http://www.hp.com, click on the "Driver Downloads" link. b.
a. b. 6. At the EFI Shell prompt, type acpiconfig default and press Enter. Type reset and press Enter. System is unbootable after adding new disks. When you add new disks, the system may fail with one of the following messages: init= or VFS root not found To fix the problem: a. b. c. d. Remove any disks you've added since you last booted your system. Invoke parted /dev/sdX where sdX is the disk where your root partition resides.
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. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14.
included in the documentation package that is posted with the driver. The fixed driver will be included in the next Service Pack for SUSE Linux Enterprise. Even with the fixed tg3 driver the system may not establish a link 100 percent of the time because of a hardware problem. This is an issue that manifests itself on Linux and does not affect other operating systems. Until this issue is resolved, if the system does not establish a link, then simply retry the Ethernet operation that failed. 18.
recommends that you upgrade the operating system kernel to at least version 2.6.16.53-0.8. This package is available from Novell, and can be retrieved using any of the methods documented in “Getting Updates from the SUSE Linux Maintenance Web.” 24. Customers may experience a hang during the boot of the operating system. To resolve the issue, HP recommends that customers upgrade the operating system kernel to at least version 2.6.16.53-0.8.
