Issue 12

CD volumes not mounting after installing NetWare Service Pack 6 on NetWare 5.1 English Only installations

 

causes upgrade to NetWare 6.5 to fail

 

 

 

 

Description

During an SP6 installation on NetWare 5.1 English Only OS installations, answering

 

 

"NO" when prompted to update the Storage/LAN/PSM/WAN drivers causes CD

 

 

volumes not to mount. NetWare 5.1 English Only contains an IDEATA.HAM driver dated

 

 

1998 (IDECCD.CDM is also outdated). SP6 installs a newer driver to

 

 

c:\nwserver\drivers which does not get loaded by default since the OS server path

 

 

detects the 1998 version in c:\nwserver and loads that version. With the 1998 version,

 

 

the command "Load CDROM" does not Mount the CD volume. The problem is intensified

 

 

when changing CDs, as required, during an upgrade to NetWare 6.5.

 

 

 

 

Workaround

Once the OS has booted/loaded with the 1998 version of the IDEATA.HAM driver, the

 

 

CD-ROM commands to load/unload CD9660.nss or load/unload CDROM do not

 

 

necessarily mount or dismount the CD volumes. The command Load CDINST.NLM

 

 

occasionally works to mount the CD volume. However, there is no reliable workaround.

 

 

 

 

Solution

Copy the driver files (IDEATA.HAM and IDECD.CDM) from c:\nwserver\drivers to

 

 

c:\nwserver after SP6 has been installed. When the server is restarted, the new drivers

 

 

will load. This step should be done before starting an upgrade to NetWare 6.5 if your

 

 

system is running with the IDEATA.HAM driver dated 1998.

 

 

Issue 13

NetWare 6.5 does not support boot from USB CD-ROM devices

 

 

 

 

Description

Systems that do not have an IDE or SCSI CD-ROM drive cannot boot the NetWare 6.5

 

 

media because Novell does not support USB CD-ROM during boot.

 

 

 

 

Workaround

Perform an over-the-wire installation, or use an IDE or SCSI CD-ROM to install

 

 

NetWare 6.5.

 

 

 

 

Solution

Novell plans to release a bootable ISO CD image with SP1 that will support USB

 

 

CD-ROM devices. Once the bootable image has loaded, the installation can continue

 

 

with the base NetWare 6.5 media.

 

 

Issue 14

IPX cannot be bound to more than one NIC during installation

 

 

 

 

Description

During installation, IPX cannot be bound to more than one NIC when also binding IP.

 

 

 

 

Workaround

Do not attempt to bind IPX on more than one NIC until after the installation has

 

 

completed and the server is running.

 

 

 

 

Solution

This problem appears to be a resource allocation issue and will be fixed in a future

 

 

Novell Support Pack Overlay CD. However, this issue will always be present in the base

 

 

media.

 

 

Issue 15

Problem with N100.LAN loading with some server ROMS

 

 

 

 

Description

N100.LAN may fail to load on some ProLiant servers with down-level ROM revisions.

 

 

 

 

Workaround

See Solution.

 

 

 

 

Solution

Download and flash the server ROM to the latest revision. To download the latest server

 

 

ROMs, visit http://h18023.www1.hp.com/support/files/server/us/romtabl.html.

 

 

Issue 16

Downgrade messages may appear during upgrade from NetWare 5.1 or NetWare 6

 

 

 

 

Description

Upgrades from NetWare 5.1 (with SP 6 or later applied) or from NetWare 6 (with SP3

 

 

or later applied) causes a downgrade message for NCMCON.CFG to appear.

NCMCON.CFG on SmartStart 6.40 and PSP 6.41 is a newer version (dated May 2003) than the one located on the NetWare 6.5 base media (dated March 2003). The CFG file contains PCI IDs that identify the cards installed in the server through NCMCON.NLM. Without the PCI IDs, NCMCON displays cards and slots as unknown devices; however, this classification does not affect the hot plug functionality of the card or slot.

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