IBM X3100 M4 CentOS 6.5 (RHEL 6.5) installation instructions

IBM X3100 M4 CentOS 6.5 (RHEL 6.5) installation instructions

The company built an internal server on the office network and bought three IBM X3100 M4 servers. Although the official saying that Red Hat Enterprise Linux is supported, the actual installation still has some special features (it indicates that IBM server is supported in Linux, still not smooth ).

The installation steps are as follows:

[Raid 1 settings]

1. Set in bios. Boot-> Press F1 to go to the setup program-> go to System Settings and change Devices and I/O Ports-> configure SATA as IDE to RAID restart (one thing that hurts IBM servers is to modify the bios. after, need to restart again, and the restart is still slow)

2. boot again-> F1 enter System Settings-> Storages set to raid 10 (4 disks required. Note: For RAID 1, only two hard disks are required.

[2. ibm raid Driver (key )]

Although IBM officially said that this server supports RedHat enterprise linux, you must load the RAID driver during Server Installation. Otherwise, the hard disk cannot be identified.

Find the Driver Based on a series of explorations

Download megasr-15.04.2014.0225-1-rhel65-ga-x86_64.img:

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Free in http://linux.bkjia.com/

The username and password are both www.bkjia.com

The specific download directory is available at/July 15, 2014/July 15, August/IBM X3100 M4 to install CentOS 6.5 (RHEL 6.5 ).

For the download method, see

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The driver installation method is as follows:

1, the megasr-15.04.2014.0225-1-rhel65-ga-x86_64.img into the U Disk

2. When entering the installation screen, Press esc

3. Enter linux dd

Note: The dd parameter indicates that you are prompted to use the driver during installation. It is only applicable to system installation.

4. Select the driver you want to import the USB flash drive.

I took a photo very early, you can choose megasr-15.04.2014.0225-1-rhel65-ga-x86_64.img when installing the driver

[Third: normal operating system installation] (omitted)

The installation procedure is as follows:

Note ]:

If you use a USB flash disk to install the operating system, you need to pay attention to the partition, And the boot program is installed on the hard disk instead of the USB flash disk. If your USB flash drive is sda and the hard disk is sdb (you need to figure out whether your USB flash drive is identified as sda or sdb. Generally, it is sda because the USB flash drive is used to install the system, your u is sda by default) Then you should choose to install the boot program in sdb (not sdb1, or sda.

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