Support Notes for SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 10 Service Pack 2 for HP Integrity Servers HP Part Number: 5992-4774 Edition: E0708
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Table of Contents Support Notes for SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 10 Service Pack 2 for HP Integrity Servers.................................................................................................................................5 Announcement.......................................................................................................................................5 Support Note Contents........................................................................................................
Support Notes for SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 10 Service Pack 2 for HP Integrity Servers Announcement This document provides instructions for initiating the SLES 10 Service Pack 2 installation using the HP Smart Setup application, explains how to get updates from SUSE LINUX Maintenance Web, and lists known problems with SLES 10 Service Pack 2 for the Intel® Itanium® Processor Family on HP Integrity Servers. Support Note Contents 1. 2. 3. 4.
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 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. HP recommends the use of HP provided drivers for use with HP-branded fibre channel cards. To obtain the driver: a. From the page at http://www.hp.com, click on the "Support & Drivers" link. b. Click the radio button preceding "Download drivers and software" on the Software & Driver Downloads under the Step 1 section. c.
7. Before installing or booting SLES 10 on an nPartition on an rx7620, rx8620, or Integrity Superdome SX1000 server, set the ACPI configuration value to acpiconfig single-pci-domain. For rx7620, rx8620, or Integrity Superdome SX1000 servers booting SLES 10: a. b. At the EFI Shell prompt, type acpiconfig single-pci-domain and press Enter. Type reset and press Enter. For rx7640 and rx8640 booting SLES10: a. b. 8. At the EFI Shell prompt, type acpiconfig default and press Enter. Type reset and press Enter.
command from the EFI shell and reset the nPartition to make the ACPI configuration take effect. The normal behavior on rx7620 and rx8620 servers is for an nPartition to be made inactive (all cells are in a boot-is-blocked state) when shutdown -h or poweroff is issued from the SLES command line. This behavior is established with the acpiconfig disable powerdown setting, which is the normal setting for the single-pci-domain ACPI configuration.
18. The ELILO bootloader can pass command-line options to the Linux kernel. The max_addr= and mem= options limit the amount of memory used by the kernel. Some versions of the kernel handle these arguments incorrectly, resulting in an MCA that crashes the system during boot. If the system boots successfully, there is no risk of a crash due to this problem. Booting with max_addr= or mem= is sometimes useful for debugging problems, but is not a tested feature.
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