Support Notes for SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 10 Service Pack 4 for HP Integrity Servers (5900-0402)

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.
2. The vKVM mouse enabled in the Integrity Integrated Lights-Out (iLO 2) Advanced Pack
will be ignored during installation. The vKVM mouse will function with the X11 server was
the system has been installed. Another user interface instead of vKVM should be used for
the installation.
3. No support for uncertified RPM packages.
If you add uncertified RPM packages to the operating system (for example, from an open
source development repository), it will not be supported by Novell. Novell supports only
RPM packages bundled in supported Linux distributions for Integrity servers and official
SLES Service Packs for those distributions. HP supports the Linux software it distributes.
4. No support for systems with a recompiled kernel.
Although you may recompile your kernel to change configuration parameters, HP does not
support systems on which you have recompiled your kernel for any other reason (for example,
for kernel source code changes).
Supported customizations:
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/src/linux/Documentation/
kernel-parameters.txt (with the kernel-source /rpm).
5. Before installing or booting SLES10 SP4 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.
6. 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. 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.
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