Sun Microsystems AND B100S, B100X, B1600, B200X BLADE 2.3 B100x and B200x (Linux) Server Blade Issues

Chapter 2 Linux 2-5

2.3 B100x and B200x (Linux) Server BladeIssues

The following problems have been observed on both B100x and B200x server blades:

■4868095: Red Hat Advanced Server 2.1 does not support layer 2VLANs

The Advanced Server kernel (version 2.4.9-e.3) does not support layer 2 VLANs.

This means that the sunconfig utility is not installed on blades running Red Hat

Advanced Server 2.1. If you are using blades with Red Hat Advanced Server 2.1

installed, you must configure the switch to use only untagged VLANs.

If you require VLAN support, you must install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 or

SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 service pack 3.

■4853227: Spurious interrupt messages appear in /var/log/messages

Spurious interrupt IRQ7 messages may appear in /var/log/messages. These

messages can be ignored.

The following problems have been observed on B200x server blades only:

■44932162: The BSC driver displays names of LEDs not present on the blade

When the BSC driver is loaded, five extraneous LED files appear in the

/proc/bsc directory.The LED status for these files is reported as “not present”

and they can be ignored.

■4987508: Kernel panic occurs during booting of B200x server blades (el-3.0u1)

If you attempt to boot Enterprise Linux 3.0 update 1 with APM enabled, the

system will panic. This is due to expectations made by the APM subsystem,

which is considered unsafe to run on a multi-processor machine. Without

enabling APM (or ACPI), the /sbin/poweroff command will not power off the

blade.

This problem has been worked around using the bsc driver.The bsc driver

notifies the hardwareof the intent to power off, and the hardware powers off the

blade10 seconds later.If the bsc driver is not loaded at power-off time, the system

will fail to power off.