Kickstarting an RX4640 Itanium

[Bryan Stillwell]

Matt,

Here's a kickstart script that I just tested with a network kickstart 
and it worked fine on an rx2660.

Bryan

Matt P wrote:
> Yes, you're correct, I've got Itatium on the brain, there are only 2
> internal drives. I'm in the process of building out 70+ machine which
> are a mix of Itanium (RX4640) and x86 (DL class). The x86 machines
> have 4 HDDs, my mistake.
> 
> I'm pretty sure the Module gets loaded. I didn't use lsmod but fdisk
> does see the disk and the partitions that HP SmartStart builds which
> includes efi.... I'll give that "device scsi cciss" a shot. the worst
> part about testing this is I've got to burn a new DVD each time I make
> a change to the config. Then sneaker net it over to the customer site,
> etc, etc... It's a royal pain.
> 
> 
> On 3/28/07, Bryan Stillwell <bryan.stillwell at hp.com> wrote:
>> Matt,
>>
>> I work in HP's Open Source and Linux Organization and I've done multiple
>> kickstart installs on Itanium hardware and everything looks right to me.
>>   It sounds like the cciss driver isn't being loaded during your
>> kickstart install for some reason.  Can you switch to the shell (Alt-F2)
>> and run lsmod (or 'cat /proc/modules') and see if the cciss driver is
>> loaded when you receive that message?
>>
>> You can also try adding the following line to the top of your kickstart
>> script to make sure the cciss driver is loaded:
>>
>> device scsi cciss
>>
>> BTW, how did you manage to fit four internal drives in an rx4640?
>> There's only room for two.
>>
>> Bryan
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