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Support Note for UnitedLinux Partner Distributions on Itanium® 2-based Servers Announcement 1 Support Note for UnitedLinux Partner Distributions on Itanium® 2-based Servers Announcement Hewlett-Packard has certified UnitedLinux 1.0 partner distributions1 on HP Itanium 2-based servers. Use the HP Enablement Kit for Linux to prepare your server for operating system installation. It will prompt you to insert operating system CDs when ready.
Support Note for UnitedLinux Partner Distributions on Itanium® 2-based Servers Support Note Contents Support Note Contents 1. Distributions Supported on Itanium 2-based Servers 2. Operating System Installation 3. Firmware Requirements and Manageability Tools 4.
Support Note for UnitedLinux Partner Distributions on Itanium® 2-based Servers Distributions Supported on Itanium 2-Based Servers Distributions Supported on Itanium 2-Based Servers 1. UnitedLinux 1.0 partner distributions 2. Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server 2.1 Order UnitedLinux 1.0 partner distributions independently. The HP Enablement Kit for Linux is not included with your operating system purchase. Download or order from http://www.software.hp.
Support Note for UnitedLinux Partner Distributions on Itanium® 2-based Servers Operating System Installation Operating System Installation Before installing your operating system, use the HP Enablement Kit CD for Linux (available at http://www.software.hp.com), which automates processes such as: • Configuration of storage controllers • Disk partitioning • Installation of service partition content • Linux installation from distributor media (i.e.
Support Note for UnitedLinux Partner Distributions on Itanium® 2-based Servers Firmware Requirements and Manageability Firmware Requirements and Manageability Firmware Requirements System Firmware revision 1.61 or greater is required for Linux to be installed on your Itanium 2-based system. To determine your current version, type "INFO FW" at the EFI Shell prompt. The firmware revision should be 1.61 or later. For more information on firmware, go to www.hp.com/go/bizsupport.
Support Note for UnitedLinux Partner Distributions on Itanium® 2-based Servers Known Problems Known Problems 1. No support for uncertified .rpm packages If you add uncertified .rpms to UnitedLinux partner distributions, they will not be supported. Only .rpms bundled in supported Linux distributions for Itanium 2-based servers and official patches for UnitedLinux partner distributions will be supported. 2. No support for systems with a recompiled kernel.
Support Note for UnitedLinux Partner Distributions on Itanium® 2-based Servers Known Problems 4. USB-to-PS2 adapter failures. The A7782 USB-to-PS/2 adapter occasionally fails to connect at EFI when using system firmware revisions 1.44 and earlier. The symptom is the following message, which continues to print dots: "USB Keyboard Not Responding, Searching for another:.........." Use the power button to turn the system off and back on again to work around this situation.
Support Note for UnitedLinux Partner Distributions on Itanium® 2-based Servers Known Problems image=vmlinuz-2.4.18-e.25smp label=linux initrd=initrd-2.4.18-e.Nsmp.img read-only root="LABEL=/" append="console=ttyS0,115200n8 hdd=ide-scsi" 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.
Support Note for UnitedLinux Partner Distributions on Itanium® 2-based Servers Known Problems The firmware is VT 102 emulator, so you can set the terminal type to VT 102 to workaround this problem. 9. Enabling 3D acceleration for the ATI Radeon VE7000 graphics card on rx5670 servers causes the graphics console to hang during the installation test phase and may impair graphics console behavior with any functionality that uses 3D acceleration.
