Support Notes for SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 10 Service Pack 2 for HP Integrity Servers

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. At the EFI Shell prompt, type acpiconfig single-pci-domain and press Enter.

b. Type reset and press Enter.

For rx7640 and rx8640 booting SLES10:

a. At the EFI Shell prompt, type acpiconfig default and press Enter.

b. Type reset and press Enter.

8. System is unbootable after adding new disks.

When you add new disks, the system may fail with one of the following messages:

init=

VFS root not found

To fix the problem:

a. Remove any disks you've added since you last booted your system.

b. Invoke the following command:

parted /dev/sdX

where sdX is the disk where your root partition resides.

c. Use the name command to assign forward slash (/) as a LABEL to the root file system.

The help name from inside parted explains the syntax you should use, for example,

name 1 /

d. Manually verify root= "LABEL= /" is in each image section of the

/boot/efi/SuSE/elilo.conf file.

==== sample elilo.conf for mounting root partition by label ====

default=linux

timeout=50

prompt

image=vmlinuz

label = Linux

append = ""

initrd = initrd

root="LABEL=/"

==== sample elilo.conf for mounting root partition by label ====

e. Manually verify LABEL"=/" entry is in the /etc/fstab.

===== sample fstab for mounting root device by label =====

LABEL=/ / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1

/dev/sda1 /boot/efi vfat defaults 0 0

/dev/sda2 swap swap defaults 0 0

proc /proc proc defaults 0 0

sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0

debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0

usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0

devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0

===== sample fstab for mounting root device by label =====

9. If you want rx7620 or rx8620 server hardware to power off when the shutdown -h command

or poweroff command is issued, run the acpiconfig enable softpowerdown