Support Notes for UnitedLinux Partner Distributions on Itanium 2-based Servers

Support Note for UnitedLinux Partner Distributions on Itanium® 2-based Servers
Known Problems
Chapter 110
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.
===== sample fstab for mounting root device by label =====
LABEL=/ / ext2 defaults,errors=remount-ro 1 1
/dev/hda1 /boot/efi vfat defaults 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda3 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda5 /home ext2 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 2
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
===== sample fstab for mounting root device by label =====
7. SCSI errors and resets cause system failures. SCSI errors and resets for any reason cause
system failures. For example, if your disks have a problem such as a parity or disk error
that causes a SCSI reset, the system will fail. Combining a Seagate drive with the ds2100
disk carrier causes electrical problems on the SCSI bus and subsequent reset attempts
that also result in system failure. Do not use Seagate drives with this disk carrier.
8. ASSI Text-mode booting screen cuts off text.
The booting screen displays these incomplete lines:
(x) Write ELILO to the boot disk ('MBR' on /dev/hda
( ) Do not use ELILO (a different boot manager is r
( ) Write ELILO to a different partition: <da