HP Insight Control for Linux 6.0 User Guide

• The target managed system or systems and their management processors have been
discovered and are associated with each other in HP SIM
• You have set the user name and password on the management processors. For more
information about setting or changing management processor credentials, see Section 21.1
(page 205). For more information on management processor credentials themselves, see
“Management Processor Credentials” (page 211).
• You have registered the appropriate supported OS in the repository and you have copied
the vendor-supplied source installation files to the repository path created by the OS
registration process.
• You have copied the appropriate vendor-supplied boot target files to the repository path
created by the registration process.
• You have registered the appropriate Kickstart or AutoYaST configuration files in the
repository and you have copied the files to the repository, if you want to enable unattended
installations.
• You have registered the appropriate PSP in the repository and have associated it with the
appropriate OS, and you have manually copied the associated PSP file to the repository path
created by the registration process.
• If you are installing a 32-bit operating system on a managed system that has more than 64
GB of memory, be sure to specify the mem=60gb kernel option in the kernel append line
during installation.
Additional prerequisites might apply for specific servers. See the following section, if it applies
to your environment.
7.3.1 Additional prerequisites for certain ProLiant servers
Certain ProLiant servers whose NIC cards are currently unsupported in the operating distribution
require a special initrd file. These servers are:
• ProLiant BL495c G5 server blades
• ProLiant G6 servers
For a specific list of servers, see the HP Insight Control for Linux Support Matrix.
To perform a RHEL Kickstart or SLES AutoYaST installation on these servers whose NIC cards
are unsupported, you must replace the boot RAM disk (initrd) supplied with the standard
Red Hat Linux or SUSE Linux. Download the initrd files from the appropriate web address
that corresponds to the server and operating system. These initrd files have additional support
for the servers; you can use them to install the corresponding OS on the other hardware platforms
as well.
Table 7-2 Download web address for initrd files
FTP download web addressArchitectureOperating system
ftp://hp.com/pub/softlib2/software1/pubsw-linux/p1930859030/v50002x86RHEL Advanced
Server/Enterprise
Server 4.7
ftp://hp.com/pub/softlib2/software1/pubsw-linux/p207307759/v50003AMD64
No modifications requiredx86 and AMD64RHEL 4.8
ftp://hp.com/pub/softlib2/software1/pubsw-linux/p944055041/v48640x86
RHEL 5.2
ftp://hp.com/pub/softlib2/software1/pubsw-linux/p180857358/v50006AMD64
No modifications requiredx86 and AMD64RHEL 5.3
No modifications requiredx86 and AMD64RHEL 5.4
ftp://hp.com/pub/softlib2/software1/pubsw-linux/p1817175341/v51314x86
SLES 10 SP2
ftp://hp.com/pub/softlib2/software1/pubsw-linux/p1378082115/v51315AMD64
88 Installing operating systems on managed systems