SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Support Notes for HP Integrity Servers HP Part Number: 5992-6176 Edition: Edition: 1
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About This Document This document provides information specific to the installation and support of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 on HP Integrity Servers. Intended Audience This document is intended for system administrators responsible for installing, configuring, and managing Linux. Administrators must have knowledge of operating system concepts, commands, and configuration. Knowledge of Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) concepts is also helpful.
— The HP SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 for HP ProLiant, BladeSystem & Integrity Servers website: www.hp.com/go/integritysles — The HP Integrity Essentials Foundation Pack for Linux website: http://www.hp.com/go/integritylinuxessentials — The HP Integrity Essentials Foundation Pack for Linux documentation website: http://docs.hp.com/en/ linuxredhat.html#HP%20Integrity%20Essentials%20Foundation%20Pack%20for%20Linux — The Intel® EFI website: http://developer.intel.
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1 Support for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 This support note provides the additional installation and support information for the use of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11 on HP Integrity servers. This chapter provides the support and certification information related to SLES 11 on HP Integrity servers. SLES 11 Certification and Support Information HP has certified SLES 11 for the Intel Itanium Processor (glibc-2.9-13.2 and kernel-default-2.6.27.19-5.1) on HP Integrity servers.
2 Operating System Installation This chapter describes how to prepare your server for operating system (OS) installation, install the SLES 11 OS on your HP Integrity server, and obtain OS updates directly from Novell. Installation Preparation Before you begin installing SLES 11 OS on your HP Integrity server, ensure that you have obtained: • all necessary installation documentation, and • the SLES 11 for the Intel Itanium Processor installation media set.
Methods of Operating System Installation The are two methods that can be used to install SLES 11 on your HP Integrity server as follows. NOTE: Installation of SLES 11 on your HP Integrity server by the factory is not offered. Installing Using HP Smart Setup Before installing SLES 11 on your HP Integrity server, use the HP Smart Setup application. The HP Smart Setup utility and HP Support Pack are part of the HP Integrity Essentials Foundation Pack for Linux, which ships with your system hardware.
Obtaining Updates from Novell Updating your server is simple using Novell's openSUSE Updater, YaST, which is installed and configured by default. For detailed instructions on how to use YaST to update SLES 11 on your server, see the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Administration Guide: http://www.novell.com/documentation/sles11/index.
3 Recommendations, Limitations, and Known Issues This chapter contains recommendations, limitations, and known issues with the use of SLES 11 on HP Integrity servers. Recommendations The following recommendations from HP for using SLES 11 on HP Integrity servers should be observed.
• PCI Express Active State Power Management support PCI Express Active State Power Management is not supported on HP Integrity servers. • Transfer of Control should not be used The Kernel Debugger (KDB) is included in SLES 11. When a Transfer of Control (TOC) is issued, instead of producing a dump the SLES 11 kernel enters the KDB. This process may cause issues so HP recommends that you do not use TOC.
Kernel • Avoid kernel dump errors on PCI Express servers The Kdump (kernel dump) feature of kexec can be used on PCI Express servers though PCI Express errors may occur. To avoid error messages, boot with the pci=noaer. Hardware • System panics occur if fibre channel storage arrays are directly connected System panics may occur on HP Integrity servers running Linux that have fibre channel storage arrays directly connected.
If the system was working previously, try the pdt command at the EFI prompt to locate any potential bad memory cells. If there are PDT entries, consider replacing the bad memory. • Enabling rx7640 or rx8640 servers to power off The normal behavior on rx7640 and rx8640 servers is for an nPartition to be made inactive (all cells are in a boot-is-blocked state) when shutdown -h or poweroff is issued from the SLES command line.
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