Installing HP-UX 11.31 on a BL890c i2

[chuckk281]

Osvaldo was looking for some advice:

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Hi,

I’m trying to install hp-ux 11.31 sept/2010 on a couple of BL890c i2, but when in the hp-ux install menu, the “Up Arrow” key refuses to work.

Things I’ve tried:

• Monitor and keyboard attached to the SUV connector/port
• Web session thru the OA interface
• Web session thru the iLO interface
• Diff options/terminal emulations from the Remote Console interface (inside the OA/iLO interface)
• Directly connected to the iLO interface (IP) using Reflection and Putty
• Check the “up arrow” key on my laptop is actually working (just in case you were thinking of that J )

Things I will try today:

• Play around with diff terminal emulation setting using putty and reflection
• Directly connected to the blade using a serial cable attached to the SUV connector/port
• Use a diff computer
• Connect to a production hp-ux server inside one of the c700 enclosures, then use a similar menu (swinstall, smh), and check the key is working

By the way, the blades are install in diff c700 enclosures.

Any idea/suggestion will be highly appreciated.

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Eirik replied:

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I always use the ”virtual serial port” option from the OA-iLO menu, works like a charm on 860\870 at least.

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Dennis also provided some input:

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Hi,

When you are navigating in the HP-UX Installation tool use TAB to step forward through the menus, don’t try and go backwards with up-arrow.

This is a bit laborious but prevents you from corrupting the formatting of the installation tool.

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Any other suggestions or comments?