On 11/11/2010 9:39 AM, Toralf Lund wrote:
RedShift wrote:
On 11/11/10 16:25, Toralf Lund wrote:
RedShift wrote:
On 11/11/10 14:22, Toralf Lund wrote:
I'm trying to install CentOS 5.5 on a couple of servers of type IBM System x3550 M3, but it's not going too well. Actually, the install setup phase runs as expected, and the actual installation also appears to be successful, but the system will not boot [ ... ]
Make sure all the firmware is up to date. I've had an IBM x3550 M3 and it couldn't even boot a Windows 2008 R2 64 bit CD with the firmware it shipped with.
That seems like a useful tip, but do you know what exactly I need to install and where to find it? I'm looking at an IBM download page right now, but it's a little confusing - I can't seem to find anything that it's obviously the *system* firmware, only entries like "Firmware for Rack& Tower LCD UPS" and " Firmware for Local Console Manager".
- Toralf
What's the model and type? It should be xxxx-yyy where x can be 0-9 and y can be 0-9& A-z. You can find it on the front of the chassis.
It's 7944-K1G
I've selected 7944 along with "System x" and "System x3550 M3" at http://www-933.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/, but like I said, couldn't find anything obvious.
There's a bunch of stuff under the 'operating system independent' selection there, including some sas and serverRAID updates. But what I've usually found for earlier IBM models was everything on a bootable cd or dvd image that would figure out what you needed and update it all at once. Not sure where to find it for this model, though.