Support Notes for SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 Service Pack 3 for the Intel Itanium 2 Processor Family *5991-5301* Part number: 5991-5301 Edition: 3, E0406
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Table of Contents Support Notes for SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 Service Pack 3 for the Intel Itanium Processor Family................................................................................5 Announcement.......................................................................................................................................5 Support Note Contents............................................................................................................................
Support Notes for SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 Service Pack 3 for the Intel Itanium Processor Family Announcement Hewlett-Packard has certified SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server® 9 (SLES 9) Service Pack 3 (SP3) (kernel version 2.6.5-7.244, glibc 2.3.3-98.61) 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.
Registering Software and Getting Updates from the SUSE LINUX Maintenance Web Registering Software 1. 2. 3. From http://novell.com/suselinuxportal, click the sign up here link under the “Get new account” heading to create a SUSE Portal Login and password. Return to http://novell.com/suselinuxportal, enter the login and password created in Step 1 above, and click OK. From the vertical list on the left side of the Manage Registrations page, click the Activate Product link to register your software.
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. No support for uncertified RPM packages. If you add uncertified RPM packages to the operating system (e.g. 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.
image=vmlinuz-2.4.18-e.25 label=linux-up initrd=initrd-2.4.18-e.25.img read-only root="LABEL=/" append="console=ttyS0,115200n8 hdd=ide-scsi" ==== sample elilo.conf for mounting root partition by label ==== e. Manually verify LABEL"=/" entry is in the /etc/fstab.
Previously, a workaround was recommended for cases where the device had to be opened again, and applications observed the hang. The recommended workaround included the following steps: a. Add the -L option to the agetty line in the /etc/inittab file as show below to resolve the problem: S0:1235:respawn:/sbin/agetty -L 9600 ttyS0 b. After editing the file, signal the init process to re-read the inittab file with the following command: kill -HUP 1 c.
