Sun Microsystems X6440 manual Integrated Lights Out Manager Issues

SIA does not install operating systems via PXE server

Change Request ID: 6876850

When using SIA version 2.3.8 to install OSes via a PXE server, SIA displays the following error message during the OS installation:

Error enabling swap device sda2: Invalid argument

This error affects all OS installations that SIA supports. This error occurs after the disk partition phase of the OS installation and might indicate that the swap device has not been initialized.

Workaround:

Add parameter iommu=soft in PXE server.

Integrated Lights Out Manager Issues

The following issues apply to the Sun Blade X6440 server module Integrated Lights Out Manager service:

■“Delaying BIOS Upgrade During Firmware Update Can Corrupt BIOS” on page 14

■“Minimum Supported Browsers” on page 15

■“No warning when password length is exceeded” on page 15

■“KVMS authentication does not work with remote authentication mechanisms” on page 15

■“Solaris Remote Console session requires Java plugin” on page 15

■“Service processor might take up to 3 minutes to start” on page 16

■“Error message appears during service processor startup” on page 17

■“FRU data for the hard disk drives is not passed via ipmitool” on page 17

■“impitool session info all command fails” on page 17

■“Hard disk error message in the SP event log” on page 18

■“DIMM SPD data are reported incorrectly in the FRU data” on page 18

For more information about the ILOM, see the online Sun Integrated Lights Out Manager 2.0 User’s Guide (820-1188) or the Sun Integrated Lights Out Manager 3.0 Documentation Collection.

Sun Blade X6440 Server Module Product Notes 13