Support Notes for SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 10 Service Pack 4 for HP Integrity Servers HP Part Number: 5900-0402
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Table of Contents Support Notes for SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 10 Service Pack 4 for HP Integrity Servers.................................................................................................................................5 Announcement.......................................................................................................................................5 Support Note Contents........................................................................................................
Support Notes for SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 10 Service Pack 4 for HP Integrity Servers Announcement This document provides instructions for initiating the SLES 10 Service Pack 4 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 4 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 Insight Foundation Suite for Integrity with 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 Insight Foundation Suite for Integrity with Linux and updates for free from the Linux link at: http://www.hp.
2. 3. as expected during the installation but will be ignored by the X11 server once the system has been installed. To use the USB mouse in the installed system, remove the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf and restart the X11 server. Note that if this is done, only the USB mouse will function and any iLO 2 vKVM mouse that has been configured, will be ignored. The vKVM mouse enabled in the Integrity Integrated Lights-Out (iLO 2) Advanced Pack will be ignored during installation.
==== 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.
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. HP supports up to two I/O chassis per hard partition for the rx7620 and HP Integrity Superdome SX1000. HP supports up to four I/O chassis per hard partition for the rx8640. SCSI errors and resets for any reason cause system failures.
18. When Linux boots on an mid-range/high-end (cellular) IA-64 machine with discontiguous memory, a cell may end up in a state where it has too little contiguous memory available, and could cause an MCA. If you experience this issue, try one of the following methods to resolve the problem: a. b. Try changing the memory configuration so that the memory in each cell is equal. Try changing the CLM (Cell Local Memory) setting to increase the size of contiguous memory.
