Support Note and System Requirements for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server 2.1 Operating System on HP
Carrier Grade Servers cc3300/cc2300
Preparing your HP Carrier Grade Server cc3300/cc23000 for Operating System Installation
Chapter 18
Setting Up a Service Partition
Your system should come with a pre-loaded service partition. If the F4 key is visible at the
bottom of the screen on initial boot of the system, the service partition is present and you can
proceed directly to the instructions in “Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server
2.1” in this document.
The service partition contains diagnostics and tools to deal with problems when the system
will no longer boot the kernel. See the Intel Server Control Guide for the HP cc2300 & cc3300
Carrier Grade Servers for more information about the service partition.
Use the HP Carrier Grade Servers cc3300/cc2300 Resource CD and the instructions below if
you need to set up a service partition, then follow the instructions to install your operating
system.
NOTE The directions for setting up a service partition assume the BIOS gives priority
to the CD-ROM drive over the hard drive.
1. Power on your system and insert the HP Carrier Grade Servers cc3300/cc2300 Resource
CD in the CD ROM drive. The system will boot from the CD. On the first screen, use your
arrow keys to select
Utilities from the menu options and press Enter.
2. Highlight
Run Service Partition Administrator from the resulting drop down list and press
Enter.
3. Press
3 on the Service Partition Administration Menu to create a service partition. At the
prompt, On which drive should a service partition be installed, press the
number for the appropriate drive.
NOTE The service partition is installed on a DOS (FAT) file system and must
therefore exist in the first 8 GB of the disk drive. A disk drive must be
empty to create a service partition on it. If not, the service partition utility
cannot be sure it can create the partition in the first 8 GB.
4. When you see the following message, press any key and the system reboots:
The service partition was created successfully. The system will now be
rebooted. After the reboot, return to this utility and choose the option
to format and install software. The service partition will not operate
correctly until it is formatted and software has been installed onto it.
Strike a key when ready...
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