[rhn-users] Re: Installing RedHat EA 4 on IBM xSeries server

[Marty Merrick]

Larry,
My experience has been that we need to update all the system's firmware
before loading the OS. By firmware I mean the system BIOS, the RAID card
firmware, and the individual drive's firmware (every drive has it's
own). Even though this may be a new system, it a good idea to get the
"matching" firmwares installed before loading an OS. IBM support can
assist you with finding the correct versions. Once you get that done,
use the ServRAID CD to configure your RAID arrays, then load the OS.
We've had no issues with this procedure using RHEL 3 or 4.

Hope this helps,
Marty
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Marty Merrick
Director, Information Technology
IdleAire Technologies Corp.
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-----Original Message-----
From: rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com]
On Behalf Of Larry D Sorensen
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 9:40 AM
To: rhn-users at redhat.com
Subject: [rhn-users] Re: Installing RedHat EA 4 on IBM xSeries server

Has anyone installed RedHat Linux on an IBM xSeries server before? I am
getting stuck before I begin the install on setting up the RAID disks so
that they are visible during the install of the OS. It keeps telling me
that "No SCSI controller found". I think that I need to use the
ServeRAID Support CD to boot but I am not sure of all of the steps.

Larry

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