HP Insight Control for Linux 6.2 User Guide

• You have set the user name and password on the management processors. For more
information about setting or changing management processor credentials, see Section 23.1
(page 207). For more information on management processor credentials themselves, see
“Management Processor Credentials” (page 213).
• You registered the supported OS in the repository and you have copied the vendor-supplied
source installation files to the repository path the OS registration process created.
• You copied the vendor-supplied boot target files to the repository path the registration
process created.
• You registered the Kickstart or AutoYaST configuration files in the repository and you copied
the files to the repository, to enable unattended installations.
• You registered the PSP in the repository and associated it with the OS, and you manually
copied the associated PSP file to the repository path the registration process created.
• 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.
9.3.1 Additional prerequisites for certain ProLiant servers
Certain ProLiant servers whose NIC cards are 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 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 9-3 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/p535147961/v62036x86
RHEL 5.4
ftp.hp.com/pub/softlib2/software1/pubsw-linux/p2057226266/v62035AMD64
ftp.hp.com/pub/softlib2/software1/pubsw-linux/p1409428258/v61661x86
RHEL 5.5
ftp.hp.com/pub/softlib2/software1/pubsw-linux/p1814178657/v61660AMD64
ftp.hp.com/pub/softlib2/software1/pubsw-linux/p1817175341/v56008x86
SLES 10 SP 2
ftp.hp.com/pub/softlib2/software1/pubsw-linux/p1378082115/v564AMD64
ftp.hp.com//pub/softlib2/software1/pubsw-linux/p71500683/v61663x86
SLES 10 SP3
ftp.hp.com/pub/softlib2/software1/pubsw-linux/p1520693132/v61662AMD64
ftp.hp.com/pub/softlib2/software1/pubsw-linux/p305022627/v61666x86
SLES 11
ftp.hp.com/pub/softlib2/software1/pubsw-linux/p1485989723/v61664AMD64
98 Installing operating systems on managed systems