Re: Install 5.0.7 on HP ML350 G5

Source: http://unix.derkeiler.com/Newsgroups/comp.unix.sco.misc/2010−03/msg00043.html

From: darko <darko.krstic@xxxxxxxxx>• Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 10:29:18 −0700 (PDT)•

On Mar 25, 9:01 am, Pat Welch <pat...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 3/24/2010 5:42 AM, Robert T. Repko (R Squared Consultants) wrote:

Has anyone ever successfully installed 5.0.7 on an HP ML3350 G5, I'mhaving installation problems.I checked SCO's HCL before I purchased the systems and it is listed asCertified. The only problem mentioned was the network card, theyinstalled a different card for certification. There were no additionalinstallation notes. From that I assumed that the devices had built insupport by SCO.The system has an SAS E200i array controller.USB floppy drive

On my first attempt I booted from the CD and proceeded until it told methere was no hard drive.

After researching I found information on EFS−5.770a so I downloaded it,created the floppy, booted from the CD and at the boot prompt I entered:

defbootstr link=hpsas hd=Sdsk Sdsk=hpsas(0,0,0,0) Srom=wd(0,0,0)

The system loads the driver information from the floppy. It prompts mefor the license information, shows the CD as Primary/Master and Iproceed to where is says:

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'Checking system state and loading installation files.Please wait'

In the lower left hand corner it says:'Reading Source extracting files'

approx. 15 filenames flash by at which point the message 'Reading Sourceextracting files' disappears leaving only the message

'Checking system state and loading installation files.Please wait'

on the screen and never proceeds. I left the system at that pointovernight, hoping it was doing something and would eventually continuethe installation, but it never did continue beyond that point.

ps: There is a newer release for EFS−5.770a which is EFS−5.790a. I triedthat with the same exact results.

Any ideas/help greatly appreciated.

**************************** Robert T. Repko ** R Squared Consultants ** 4 Juniper Ave. ** Easton, PA 18045 ** (610) 360−1117 (mobile) ** (610) 253−0725 (fax) ****************************

Hi, Robert.

I've installed 6 of them the past couple of years. While the first onewas, umm, interesting (we had no notice legacy floppy's were no longer

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included, or serial/Parallel, and they stopped supplying the tape driveSCSI cable, which now had to be explicitly ordered), the rest went inwith no problems.

Some notes:

− With the built−in E200i RAID, the only way to get RAID−5 setupcorrectly is to use the Smart−Start CD RAID setup. The native RAID BIOSonly offers RAID 0 and 1. Using the CD utility may fix your "No rootdisk problem" BTW.

− If you need Serial/Parallel ports, order the adapter from HP. The G5still has the floppy, serial and parallel controllers onboard the MB.(Not so with the G6 − they dropped them entirely from the G6 MB design).

− Either order a legacy floppy from HP AND cable (Virtually no onecarries legacy floppy cables anymore) or get one locally with a blackbezel. Messing with USB floppies with 5.0.7 is not worth the grief IMHO.Use a legacy floppy to load the hpsas BTLD.

− Be sure to postpone configuring the NIC until you can load MP5. Thebuilt−in NIC is supported by the drivers found in MP5, or via thehpnicinstall program after EFS is installed.

− I use a simpler bootstring than you did (note no Sdsk=):

defbootstr link="hpsas" hd=Sdsk Srom=wd(0,0,0)

Here's the HP order info:

G5 Product# for ser/par kit: 401222−B21, HP P/N: 384445−002.

Legacy floppy, Model#409582−B21, HP P/N: 399397−001.

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Very useful information, Pat.

However, I suggest to carefully consider if RAID 5 is a necessity. Ifthe new server is destined to replace the older one, it should haveenough storage space anyway with RAID1 or RAID10. RAID 5 has lowerwrite performance and higher risk of lost data. Since SCO OpenServer

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is usually "set it and forget it" type of OS, it is quite possiblethat no one takes care of it for long intervals, so, at least a hotspare disk should be present with RAID 5. E200(i) has to have BBWCmodule to provide RAID 5 and does not support RAID 6, AFAIK. I had badexperience with performance of heavily used OpenServer file systems onlocal RAID 5 configurations.

It is good practice always to use Smart Start CD to setup RAIDconfigurations, since it provides more possibilities for tuning(stripe size, proportion of memory used for read/write caching...).

I used NEC USB floppy (Model: UF0002, P/N: 134−508086−102−0) forinstallation of OpenServer 5.0.7 on DL380 G5, since I would have towait several weeks for HP's part.

Darko Krstic.

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