Installing Red Hat Linux Enterprise ES4 on Proliant DL380 G5

[MarkrFox]

Thanks,

Update 5 resolved the issue for me.

regards,
mark

[Wade Neuwirth]

Question for you Harun...are you using AMD Opteron in this server? Because I have a DL 385 G2 with 2 x AMD Opteron processors and after the install (which I had the same painful installation as you did) and when it rebooted after the install it came to a kernel panic. I had to boot up with the second option in grub.conf (below)...

# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You do not have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg.
# root (hd0,0)
# kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/cciss/c0d0p1
# initrd /boot/initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/cciss/c0d0
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (2.6.9-55.ELsmp)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-55.ELsmp ro root=LABEL=/1 pci=nommconf
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.9-55.ELsmp.img
title Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES-up (2.6.9-55.EL)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-55.EL ro root=LABEL=/1
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.9-55.EL.img


This leaves me without the other processor. I found some info on this site that says to go into the BIOS and int eh Advanced options you are supposed to be able to choose an option for RHEL x64...but it isnt there, even with the latest BIOS. I figure that you're box shoud be fairly close to ours so was wondering if you have had the same experience.

[Harun Gadatia]

Hello Wade,

It seems we have the Intel Xeon 5140 2.33-GHz processors.

So we didn't run into an issue as the one you describe.

-Harun

[BR711326]

We have a similar issue:

I've open a new post also with this info.

DL385 with P400i SATA/RAID controller
Red Hat EL4 Update 3
External USB floppy with P400 drivers
This system doesn't allows me to use internal CD & Floppy; just one of them.

In the "linux updates dd" part I stuck because the system don't see the floppy. In fact it doesn't see any USB device because the USB driver is not loaded.

If I use an external USB CD, I can't find the installation media after boot. Same issue, because the USB is not running.

On the other hand this works OK with Update 5. The customer needs use Update 3 and it is supported. (see http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/linux/hpLinuxcert.html )

How can I install a server from scratch ??

Thans in advance.
antonio

[Magwa]

Use the SmartStart first to set up the disks.
Then exit and install the OS CD.

it worked with SL10.2