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= Installer Compatibility Table =
This table is a community maintained matrix of DebianInstaller builds and their compatibility with various HP ProLiant systems. This page does not infer official support from HP. Information on official HP support offerings for Debian can be found on [http://hp.com/go/debian http://hp.com/go/debian].
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= HP ProLiant Servers =
<<TableOfContents(3)>>
== Installer Compatibility Table ==
This table is a community maintained matrix of DebianInstaller builds and their compatibility with various HP !ProLiant systems. This page does not infer official support from HP. Information on official HP support offerings for Debian can be found on http://hp.com/go/debian. There is a HP support documentation about Debian GNU / Linux 6.0 Squeeze installation on !ProLiant servers [[ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softlib2/software1/pubsw-linux/p1976866454/v67901/Debian-ProLiant-Support-Notes-20110527.pdf|here]]. (Hostname `downloads.linux.hp.com` referred in PDF file should be read `downloads.linux.hpe.com`.) You may need firmware blobs found at [[http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/firmware/stable/current/|here]] and [[http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=firmware|here]] and instructions found at installation manual [[http://www.debian.org/releases/squeeze/amd64/ch06s04.html.en|chapter 6.4]].
|| '''System''' || '''Config''' || '''Installer''' || '''Installation Report''' || '''Summary''' ||
||||||||||<style="text-align: center;"> '''Buster''' ||
|| MicroServer Gen10Plus || Intel Xeon E2224 || buster-10.4.0-amd64-netinst || Nothing unusual in kernel logs. || Installer disappears when loading, black screen. appending "vga=normal fb=false" to the kernel command line solves this issue, see also [[https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch05s03.en.html|Debian Release Notes]] ||
|| ML110 Gen9 || Intel Xeon E5-2620 || buster-10.4.0-amd64-netinst || Nothing unusual in kernel logs. || Had to configure the "HPE Dynamic Smart Array B140i" (software RAID) to AHCI mode ||
||||||||||<style="text-align: center;"> '''Stretch''' ||
|| MicroServer Gen10 || AMD Opteron Processor (X3xxx) || stretch-4.9.0-4-amd64-netinst || Nothing unusual in kernel logs. || Works fine, but after reboot no display visible. HP recommends to [[https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=emr_na-a00021847en_us|edit the kernel command line (for RHEL)]], but it does not work with Stretch. Adding "nomodeset" to kernel command line works around the issue in Stretch. Solution is to install firmware-linux-nonfree ||
||||||||||<style="text-align: center;"> '''Jessie''' ||
|| MicroServer Gen8 G2020T || Intel Pentium Processor G2020T (original), 2 x KTH-PL316E/8G = 16 GB RAM, Ethernet 1Gb 2-port 332i Adapter (original), Dynamic Smart Array B120i Controller (Single disk, RAID 0) (original), No MicroSD or internal USB || jessie-8.6.0-amd64-netinst || Nothing unusual in kernel logs. || Works fine, no firmware needed. No need to disable AHCI if boot order is configured appropriately in BIOS or iLO4. (System will beep before bootloader starts however.) ||
|| DL380 Gen9 || Smart Array P440ar, SAS to HP 1-8 G2 Tape Autoloader, RAID-1 and 10 || debian-8.5.0-amd64-CD-1.iso || Used HP's "Intelligent Provisioning" to configure RAID devices before starting installation. Installation itself straightforward (100 MB UEFI boot, 500 MB boot, rest LVM PV). || After installation and boot from internal storage some fixes: 1) firmware-linux-nonfree required for tg3. 2) Tape Autoloader not detected until installed kernel 4.6.3 from Jessie backports. 3) kernel parameters: nofb nomodeset nosplash vga=normal video=vesafb:off (may not all have been necessary) to get more than first few boot messages on local console. ||
|| DL380 Gen9 || Smart Array P440ar, SAS, RAID-1 || debian-8.2.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso || || Worked fine. Post-install warnings about missing tg3 firmware in update-initramfs: installed firmware-linux-nonfree. ||
|| DL380 Gen9 || Smart Array P440ar, SAS, RAID-6 || debian-8.1.0-amd64-CD-1.iso || (1) Before installation, extract [[http://http.debian.net/debian/pool/non-free/f/firmware-nonfree/firmware-nonfree_0.43.tar.gz|Debian firmware source package]] and place all tg3 files to root folder of the USB thumb drive for loading network driver during installation (2) Set UEFI BIOS in bootup setting (3) Manual partition during installation, create a 100MB partition and set as type EFI || Worked fine ||
|| DL320 G5p || Serial ATA || debian-8.1.0-amd64-CD-1.iso || || Worked fine ||
|| G1610T Gen8 Microserver || Smart Array B120i, Broadcom NICs || debian-8.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso || || Worked fine, no firmware required. Had to set "Enable SATA AHCI" under "System Options" in BIOS to get it booting from hard drive. ||
||||||||||<style="text-align: center;"> '''Wheezy''' ||
|| DL360p || Smart Array 420i, SAS, RAID-5 || firmware-7.4.0-amd64-netinst.iso || || Worked fine, firmware cd used for tg3 ||
|| DL360 G2 || Smart Array 5i, RAID-0 || firmware-7.3.0-i386-netinst.iso || The Debian installer complains when it tries to detect the cd-rom/dvd. It says it's unable to detect it or it would just hang on that page. I'm not sure why but to fix it: press alt-f1 then enter. It will take you to a shell - check /dev and mount what you suspect is your optical drive (mount /dev/* /mnt works, no need for options) and if it works then you're good to go, alt-f2 to go back to the installer menus. I have no idea why this was necessary, I had /dev/cdrom dvd and sg0 and they all mounted fine which basically means there we're 3 devices pointing to my optical drive and yet the installer is not able to detect it. || If you use the installer on the link it should work fine except for what was mentioned on the installation report. The installer comes pre-loaded with additional non-free firmware blobs which helps as you don't need to modify the official iso's. I know this is a really, really old server but all the more you'd want Debian/linux on it. It's zooming now! ||
|| !MicroServer G7 N54L || Serial ATA RAID-1 || debian-7.6.0-amd64-netinst.iso || You only need to edit the installer commandline to add dmraid=true as explained in [[https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/SataRaid|SataRaid]] wiki page. On booting I found the message "modprobe: module dm-raid45 not found in modules.dep" which I fixed editing /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/dmraid and changing dmraid-45 into dmraid || Works fine. VGA is Radeon, and complains about the firmware missing (no acceleration, reduced 2D performance). Installing the firmware-linux-nonfree package solves this issue (not sure if not installing it penalizes the CPU too much though). ||
||||||||||<style="text-align: center;"> '''Squeeze''' ||
|| DL980 G7 || SAS Hotplug || debian-squeeze-di-rc2-amd64-netinst.iso || || Worked mostly fine, [[http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/firmware/stable/current/|needs firmware-netxen. NIC 1 & 2 not recognized in squeeze because of the missing firmware. NIC 3,4 worked fine.]] ||
|| BL685c G6 || SAS Hotplug || debian-squeeze-di-rc2-amd64-netinst.iso || || Worked fine, [[http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/firmware/stable/current/|needs bnx2 firmware]] ||
|| BL685c G7 || SAS Hotplug || debian-wheezy-DI-rc1-amd64-DVD-1.iso || || Worked fine, [[http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/firmware/stable/current/|needs firmware]] ; Xen 4.1 kernel crash without dom0_mem limit at 2048 (1024 is too low) ||
|| BL465 G5 || SAS Hotplug || debian-squeeze-di-rc2-amd64-netinst.iso || || Worked fine, [[http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/firmware/stable/current/|needs bnx2 firmware]] ||
|| DL120 G6 || SAS Hotplug || debian-6.0.4-amd64-netinst.iso || || Worked fine, [[http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/firmware/stable/current/|needs bnx2 firmware]] ||
|| DL580 G7 || SAS Hotplug || debian-squeeze-di-rc2-amd64-netinst.iso || || Worked fine, [[http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/firmware/stable/current/|needs bnx2 firmware]] ||
|| DL380 G7 || SAS Hotplug || debian-squeeze-di-rc2-amd64-netinst.iso || || Worked fine, [[http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/firmware/stable/current/|needs bnx2 firmware]] ||
|| DL380 G4 || || debian-squeeze-di-rc2-i386-netinst.iso || || Worked fine, [[http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/firmware/stable/current/|needs tg3 firmware]] ||
|| DL385 G5P || || debian-squeeze-di-rc2-i386-netinst.iso || || Worked fine, [[http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/firmware/stable/current/|needs tg3 firmware]] ||
|| DL365 G5 || Smart Array P400i SAS || debian-6.0.3-amd64-i386-netinst.iso || || Installed through iLO2 remote console/virtual CD, Worked fine, [[#Need_bnx2_firmware|needs bnx2 firmware]] ||
||||||||||<style="text-align: center;"> '''Lenny''' ||
|| DL580 G7 || || debian-505-amd64-netinst.iso || || The version of the netxen_nic driver in lenny doesn't support the onboard nics - squeeze works fine though ||
|| BL685c G6 || || debian-502-amd64-DVD-1.iso || || driver (bnx2x) missing for network controller, should be available in 5.0.3 ||
|| BL460c G6 || Boot from SAN || debian-504-amd64-netinst.iso || || Worked fine, [[#Need_bnx2_firmware|needs bnx2 firmware]] ||
|| DL160 G6 || Smart Array P410 SAS || debian-504-amd64-netinst.iso || || Worked fine ||
|| DL360 G5 || SAS Hotplug || 5.0r0 amd64 || || Worked fine, [[#Need_bnx2_firmware|needs bnx2 firmware]] ||
|| DL360 G6 || SAS Hotplug || 5.0r0 amd64 || || Worked fine, [[#Need_bnx2_firmware|needs bnx2 firmware]] ||
|| DL360 G6 || HW RAID B110i || 5.0r0 amd64 || || Hardware RAID logical volumes are invisible to OS, physical disks are exposed to OS, Debian could be installed but has to be handled with great care upon post-installation and when upgrading! See post #3 [[http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-hardware-18/raid-array-not-detected-new-hp-ml150g6-server-739130/#post3605571|in this thread at linuxquestions]] which is a rough howto for CentOS. I would suggest disabling hardware raid and setting up software raid or no raid at all until the driver makes its way on the Linux Kernel, if it ever does. ||
|| DL365 G5 || Smart Array E200i SAS || 5.0.2 netinst i386/amd64, 5.0.2 DVD i386 and amd64 || || Worked fine, [[#Need_bnx2_firmware|needs bnx2 firmware]] ||
|| DL380 G3 || SCSI-RAID-1, RAID-5 || Debian 5.0/CD-1 || ||Working 100% perfectly; RAID setup using RAID BIOS option while booting||
|| DL380 G6 || Smart Array P411 || debian-506-amd64-netinst.iso || ||Worked fine, [[#Need_bnx2_firmware|needs bnx2 firmware]]||
|| DL380 G7 || Smart Array P410 || debian-6.0.3-amd64-i386-netinst.iso || ||Worked fine, [[#Need_bnx2_firmware|needs bnx2 firmware]]||
|| ML350 G6 || !NetXen Add-on card (10gig/dual port) || 5.0.2 || || The netxen_nic driver currently in Debian doesn't support this plug-in card. Need to use an updated kernel (>=2.6.27) ||
|| ML310e G8 v2 || Non-hotswap || 8.0.0 rc3 || || Works fine if you disable Dynamic Smart Array BS320i and enable SATA AHCI in BIOS. Non non-free firmware required! Installation report in [[https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=783066|#783066]] ||
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|| '''System''' || '''Config''' || '''Installer''' || '''InstallationReport''' || '''Summary'''||
|||||||||| '''Etch''' ||
|| BL20p G3 || || [http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/etch_di_rc1/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso RC1 netboot/i386] || || Worked ||
|| BL25p G1 || || || || ||
|| BL35p G1 || || || || ||
|| BL40p G1 || || || || ||
|| BL45p G1 || || || || ||
|| BL460c G1 || || [http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/etch_di_rc1/amd64/iso-cd/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso RC1 netboot/amd64] || [http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=398981 #398981] || Worked ||
|| BL465c G1 || || || || ||
|| BL480c G1 || || || || ||
|| BL485c G1 || || || || ||
|| DL140 G3 || SATA Hot Plug || 2.6.18-based daily || || Works 99% perfectly with 2007.01.16 - PS2 is not detected but everything else works (including USB) so this isn't a big issue. Test machine has SmartArray E200 RAID controller ||
|| DL145 G1 || IDE || [http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-amd64/beta3/images/netboot/netboot.tar.gz Etch Beta 3 netboot/amd64] || [http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=384238 #384238] || ||
|| DL360 G5 || || [http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/etch_di_beta3/amd64/iso-cd/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso Etch Beta 3 netinst/amd64] || [http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=384202 #384202] || [#daily Etch Beta 3 issues fixed in daily builds] ||
|| DL360 G5 || || || || ||
|| DL365 G1 || || || || ||
|| DL380 G1 || SCSI || [http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/etch_di_beta3/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso Etch Beta 3 netinst/i386] || || Unable to get access Integrated Smart Array RAID volume. Probably the same problem seen [http://www.thestevensons.org/node/view/649 here for fedora] and in debian in bug [http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=380272 #380272]. Works fine with Sarge netinst. ||
|| DL380 G4 || SCSI || [http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/etch_di_beta3/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso Etch Beta 3 netinst/i386] || [http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=383544 #383544] || ||
|| DL380 G5 || || || || ||
|| DL385 G2 || || amd64 daily (2006.11.30) || [http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=401150 #401150] || Worked ||
|| DL580 G4 || SAS || || || ||
|| DL585 G1 || SCSI || || || ||
|| DL585 G2 || || [http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/etch_di_rc1/amd64/iso-cd/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso RC1 netboot/amd64] || [http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=398992 #398992] || Worked ||
|| ML110 G3 || SATA || [http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/etch_di_rc1/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso etch rc1/i386] || || Used software RAID, default intallation worked just fine. However, "vga=791" must be appended to kernel line, otherwise no consoles will be spawn. ||
|| ML110 G4 || SATA || 20061121/i386 || || Didn't work with lvm root and LILO, using cciss driver with hardware RAID1 ||
|| ML310 G3a || +smartarray 641 || [http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/etch_di_rc1/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso etch rc1/i386] || || worked ||
|| ML320 G4 || ||
|| ML350 G5 || || || || ||
|| ML370 G5 || || || || ||
|| ML570 G4 || || || || ||
|||||||||| '''Sarge''' ||
||<rowspan=4>BL20pG3||<rowspan=4>SCSI||[http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r0a/i386/iso-cd/debian-31r0a-i386-netinst.iso 31r0a/i386]|| || GRUB fails, use LILO ||
||[http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/amd64-3.1_r0/iso-cd/debian-31r0a-amd64-netinst.iso 31r0a/amd64]|| || GRUB and LILO fail ||
|| [#hpde HPDE] 20060905/i386 || || (./) ||
|| [#hpde HPDE] 20060815/amd64 || || (./) ||
||<rowspan=4>BL25pG1||<rowspan=4>SCSI||[http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r0a/i386/iso-cd/debian-31r0a-i386-netinst.iso 31r0a/i386]|| || GRUB fails, use LILO ||
||[http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/amd64-3.1_r0/iso-cd/debian-31r0a-amd64-netinst.iso 31r0a/amd64]|| || GRUB and LILO fail ||
|| [#hpde HPDE] 20060905/i386 || || (./) ||
|| [#hpde HPDE] 20060815/amd64 || || (./) ||
||<rowspan=4>BL460c||<rowspan=4>SCSI||[http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r0a/i386/iso-cd/debian-31r0a-i386-netinst.iso 31r0a/i386]|| || Missing storage/network drivers ||
||[http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/amd64-3.1_r0/iso-cd/debian-31r0a-amd64-netinst.iso 31r0a/amd64]|| || Missing storage/network drivers ||
|| [#hpde HPDE] 20061023/i386 || || (./) ||
|| [#hpde HPDE] 20061023/amd64 || || (./) ||
||<rowspan=4>DL360G4||<rowspan=4>SCSI||[http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r0a/i386/iso-cd/debian-31r0a-i386-netinst.iso 31r0a/i386]|| || GRUB fails, use LILO ||
||[http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/amd64-3.1_r0/iso-cd/debian-31r0a-amd64-netinst.iso 31r0a/amd64]|| || GRUB and LILO fail ||
|| [#hpde HPDE] 20060905/i386 || || (./) ||
|| [#hpde HPDE] 20060815/amd64 || || (./) ||
||<rowspan=1>DL380G1||<rowspan=1>SCSI||[http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r0a/i386/iso-cd/debian-31r0a-i386-netinst.iso 31r0a/i386]|| || (./) ||
|| DL380 G2 || SCSI || [http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r4/i386/iso-cd/debian-31r4-i386-netinst.iso 31r4/i386]|| || (./) Initially GRUB seems to fail but can work. See notes below.||
||<rowspan=4>DL380G4||<rowspan=4>SCSI||[http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r0a/i386/iso-cd/debian-31r0a-i386-netinst.iso 31r0a/i386]|| || GRUB fails, use LILO ||
||[http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/amd64-3.1_r0/iso-cd/debian-31r0a-amd64-netinst.iso 31r0a/amd64]|| || GRUB and LILO fail ||
|| [#hpde HPDE] 20061106/i386 || || (./) ||
|| [#hpde HPDE] 20061106/amd64 || || (./) ||
||<rowspan=4>DL380G5||<rowspan=4>SAS||[http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r0a/i386/iso-cd/debian-31r0a-i386-netinst.iso 31r0a/i386]|| ||<rowspan=2>cciss driver too old, missing bnx2 driver for onboard nic ||
||[http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/amd64-3.1_r0/iso-cd/debian-31r0a-amd64-netinst.iso 31r0a/amd64]||||
|| [#hpde HPDE] 20061106/i386 || || (./) ||
|| [#hpde HPDE] 20061106/amd64 || || (./) ||
||<rowspan=4>DL580G4||<rowspan=4>SCSI||[http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r0a/i386/iso-cd/debian-31r0a-i386-netinst.iso 31r0a/i386]|| ||<rowspan=2>cciss driver too old, missing bnx2 driver for onboard nic ||
||[http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/amd64-3.1_r0/iso-cd/debian-31r0a-amd64-netinst.iso 31r0a/amd64]||||
|| [#hpde HPDE] 20061027/i386 || || (./) ||
|| [#hpde HPDE] 20061023/amd64 || || need to drop to shell to load cciss driver ||
<<Anchor(daily)>>

=== Daily Builds ===
Daily builds are available from the [[http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/|d-i devel page]].

== Known Issues ==

=== cciss and hpsa ===

On a HP !ProLiant ML350 G6 Tower server I discovered on a fresh installed Debian squeeze amd64, that I can not use the internal HP Ultrium LTO-2 SAS tape device, connected to a P212 SAS Smart Array controller with zero memory, mounted in a PCI-Express slot. The server has also a 2-port P410i Smart Array controller integrated on the mainboard.

The kernel module [[HP/ProLiant#cciss|cciss]], which comes with the 2.6.32 kernel, seems not to be able to handle the tape connected to the P212 controller. No device (/dev/st0) was available. And also lsscsi does only show the DVD drive, but no disks. Looking at /dev/cciss/ one can see, that for the disks and the tape, a device was created. In the kernel documentation (linux-source-2.6.32 package) or [[http://kernel.org/doc/Documentation/blockdev/cciss.txt|on the web]] one can read about how to handle that situation:

(Extract from /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.32/Documentation/blockdev/cciss.txt)
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'''''SCSI tape drive and medium changer support'''
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[[Anchor(hpde)]]
= HPDE Builds =
Contact DannFrazier to obtain an HPDE installer build
SCSI sequential access devices and medium changer devices are supported and appropriate device nodes are automatically created. (e.g. /dev/st0, /dev/st1, etc. See the "st" man page for more details.) You must enable "SCSI tape drive support for Smart Array 5xxx" and "SCSI support" in your kernel configuration to be able to use SCSI tape drives with your Smart Array 5xxx controller.
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[[Anchor(daily)]]
= Daily Builds =
Daily builds are available from the [http://www.us.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ d-i devel page]
Additionally, note that the driver will not engage the SCSI core at init time. The driver must be directed to dynamically engage the SCSI core via the /proc filesystem entry which the "block" side of the driver creates as /proc/driver/cciss/cciss* at runtime. This is because at driver init time,the SCSI core may not yet be initialized (because the driver is a block driver) and attempting to register it with the SCSI core in such a case would cause a hang. This is best done via an initialization script (typically in /etc/init.d, but could vary depending on distribution).
For example:
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= Issues =
== Virtual Media Disconnect crashes kernel ==
Kernel crashes have been observed when ejecting Virtual CD-ROM media is ejected, even when the media is umounted. The suggested workaround is to shutdown the OS before ejecting the Virtual CD-ROM. Observed on an iLO 2 system running kernel-image-2.6.8-12-amd64-generic (2.6.8-16sarge5hpde1).
{{{
        for x in /proc/driver/cciss/cciss[0-9]*
        do
                echo "engage scsi" > $x
        done
}}}
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== Remote Serial Console hangs ==
The boot sequence has been observed to hang when Linux is configured to use the Remote Serial Console. Sending data to the serial console (e.g., pressing enter) will allow the console output to proceed. Observed on an iLO 2 system running kernel-image-2.6.8-12-amd64-generic (2.6.8-16sarge5hpde1).
Once the SCSI core is engaged by the driver, it cannot be disengaged
(except by unloading the driver, if it happens to be linked as a module.)
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== Panic loading cciss driver ==
The em64t-p4 flavor kernel has been observed to panic when attempting to load the cciss driver:
Note also that if no sequential access devices or medium changers are
detected, the SCSI core will not be engaged by the action of the above
script.''
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With using a kernel version 2.6.33 and above, there comes the [[HP/ProLiant#hpsa|hpsa]] module.

It used not be used automatically by the kernel.
To get it working for me, I installed the kernel from experimental (2.6.36-rc6-amd64) and created the file /etc/modprobe.d/cciss_allow_hpsa.conf with one line of content 'options cciss cciss_allow_hpsa=y' to get the cciss driver to not load if hpsa can handle the devices better, according to this [[http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/10/12/330|discussion]] and this [[http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/10/26/423| information]].

/!\ Take notice that /dev/cciss/c0d0, likely your boot device, may suddenly show up as /dev/sda instead. (This did not happen to me, but should be mentioned here)

After a reboot all works as expected and all the devices show also up with lsscsi.
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 SCSI subsystem initialized
 HP CISS Driver (v 2.6.10)
 cciss: using DAC cycles
 ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:06:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
 cciss cciss0: SendCmd Invalid command list address returned! (2)
 ciss cciss0: SendCmd Timeout out, No command list address returned!
 cciss: unable to determine firmware version of controller
 cciss cciss0: SendCmd Invalid command list address returned! (2)
 cciss cciss0: SendCmd Timeout out, No command list address returned!
 cciss: report logical volume command failed
 Using anticipatory io scheduler
 pivot_root: No such file or direKernel panic: Attempted to kill init!
 ctory
root@debian:~# lspci -knn
...
04:00.0 RAID bus controller [0104]: Hewlett-Packard Company Smart Array G6 controllers [103c:323a] (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Smart Array P410i [103c:3245]
        Kernel driver in use: hpsa
14:00.0 RAID bus controller [0104]: Hewlett-Packard Company Smart Array G6 controllers [103c:323a] (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Smart Array P212 [103c:3241]
        Kernel driver in use: hpsa
root@debian:~# lsscsi
[0:0:0:0] storage HP P410i 3.52 -
[0:0:0:1] disk HP LOGICAL VOLUME 3.52 /dev/sda
[1:0:0:0] storage HP P212 3.52 -
[1:2:0:0] tape HP Ultrium 2-SCSI T65D /dev/st0
[3:0:0:0] cd/dvd ATAPI DVD A DH16AAS JHE5 /dev/sr0
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If you experience this problem, it is recommended to use the amd64-generic kernel instead.
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== Grub fails to install ==
Two different issues have been observed to cause this problem:
 * The Debian 2.6.8 kernel has a [http://dannf.org/bloggf/tech/cciss-grub-real-fix.html bug] in the block layer that causes certain ioctls to fail. The HPDE installer includes the fix for this bug.
 * Grub may also fail if the partition that holds /boot extends past the first 512MB. You can identify this situatin by choosing "Execute a Shell" in the main menu and running 'cat /target/tmp/grub*'. If you see the message ''Error 18: Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS'', try creating a separate /boot partition that resides within the first 512MB of your disk.
 * Debian-installer gets an error during GRUB install. Using grub manually yields:
{{{
grub> root (hd0,0)
 Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
For the upcoming stable version of Debian, squeeze, which will use the 2.6.32 kernel as standard, this given information will be hopefully helpful for others. I searched with some breaks nearly a week around to find a way to workaround.
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grub> setup (hd0)
 Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... no
 Checking if "/grub/stage1" exists... no
See also [[http://kernel.org/doc/Documentation/scsi/hpsa.txt|the kernel documentation]] for further explanation.
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Error 15: File not found
}}}
   Mounting this partition showed that the grub files had been copied to the appropriate places (/boot/grub/stage1, etc.). I tried using the 'install' command directly and used tab completion to find the stage1 image by starting out with '(hd0,0)/' and hitting tab. Doing so only displayed '(hd0,0)/lost+found/'. It seems that there was caching going on somewhere such that the RAID controller drivers were reading the files (so Linux could see them) but grub couldn't see them yet. I rebooted and started the setup over again making sure to leave the /boot filesystem intact and the partitioning intact. Having done so, the GRUB Install portion of setup was successful.
=== Need bnx2 firmware ===
Several HP !ProLiant systems use the Broadcom !NetXtreme II network controllers. This network controller is supported by the bnx2 driver, but requires external non-free firmware. The installer will detect the absence of this firmware and prompt you for it at install-time. To avoid this, you can modify your install image to include the needed firmware. See [[http://dannf.org/bloggf/tech/add-firmware-to.html|this page]] for a script that does this (Please note that you have to edit the script because it's supporting without changes only the outdated "lenny" and current stable "squeeze" release.). Also details at DebianInstaller/NetbootFirmware. Alternatively, you can obtain non-official CD images with external firmware loading enabled; see [[Firmware]]. More details are available in [[ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softlib2/software1/pubsw-linux/p1976866454/v67901/Debian-ProLiant-Support-Notes-20110527.pdf|this HP-provided document]].
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== debootstrap fails ==
There has been a report of a "debootstrap error" message while installing a ProLiant with a burned netinst ISO. This is believed to be caused by an issue with reading the burned media. Installing using iLO virtual media, or by [http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s06.html.en netbooting the installer].
== HP Repository ==
HP provides an apt repository for the ProLiant Management Component Pack. Repository details may be found at: http://downloads.linux.hpe.com/SDR/project/mcp
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== AMD system doesn't detect NIC/Smart Array controller ==
Try passing pci=nommconf as described [http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/linux/k8-notes.html here].

Or you may point apt directly at the repo with this line in /etc/apt/sources.list:
{{{{
deb http://downloads.linux.hpe.com/SDR/repo/mcp jessie/current non-free
}}}}

There's even a GPG key you can import in apt so it doesn't complain about untrusted sources.

See http://downloads.linux.hpe.com/keys.html for more details.
{{{{
curl http://downloads.linux.hpe.com/SDR/hpPublicKey1024.pub | apt-key add -
curl http://downloads.linux.hpe.com/SDR/hpPublicKey2048.pub | apt-key add -
curl http://downloads.linux.hpe.com/SDR/hpPublicKey2048_key1.pub | apt-key add -
curl http://downloads.linux.hpe.com/SDR/hpePublicKey2048_key1.pub | apt-key add -
}}}}



'''WARNING''' - the Debian repository is not always up to date. You can try the Ubuntu repository, something like:
{{{{
deb http://downloads.linux.hpe.com/SDR/repo/mcp/ubuntu trusty/current non-free
   or
deb http://downloads.linux.hpe.com/SDR/repo/mcp/ubuntu xenial/current non-free
}}}}

== RAID Monitoring ==

AFAIU, cciss was supported in older distributions, whereas hpsa is the new kind of drivers.

=== cciss RAID controller driver ===

See [[LinuxRaidForAdmins#cciss]]

=== hpsa RAID controller driver ===

See [[LinuxRaidForAdmins#hpsa]]

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HP ProLiant Servers

Installer Compatibility Table

This table is a community maintained matrix of DebianInstaller builds and their compatibility with various HP ProLiant systems. This page does not infer official support from HP. Information on official HP support offerings for Debian can be found on http://hp.com/go/debian. There is a HP support documentation about Debian GNU / Linux 6.0 Squeeze installation on ProLiant servers here. (Hostname downloads.linux.hp.com referred in PDF file should be read downloads.linux.hpe.com.) You may need firmware blobs found at here and here and instructions found at installation manual chapter 6.4.

System

Config

Installer

Installation Report

Summary

Buster

?MicroServer ?Gen10Plus

Intel Xeon E2224

buster-10.4.0-amd64-netinst

Nothing unusual in kernel logs.

Installer disappears when loading, black screen. appending "vga=normal fb=false" to the kernel command line solves this issue, see also Debian Release Notes

ML110 Gen9

Intel Xeon E5-2620

buster-10.4.0-amd64-netinst

Nothing unusual in kernel logs.

Had to configure the "HPE Dynamic Smart Array B140i" (software RAID) to AHCI mode

Stretch

?MicroServer Gen10

AMD Opteron Processor (X3xxx)

stretch-4.9.0-4-amd64-netinst

Nothing unusual in kernel logs.

Works fine, but after reboot no display visible. HP recommends to edit the kernel command line (for RHEL), but it does not work with Stretch. Adding "nomodeset" to kernel command line works around the issue in Stretch. Solution is to install firmware-linux-nonfree

Jessie

?MicroServer Gen8 G2020T

Intel Pentium Processor G2020T (original), 2 x KTH-PL316E/8G = 16 GB RAM, Ethernet 1Gb 2-port 332i Adapter (original), Dynamic Smart Array B120i Controller (Single disk, RAID 0) (original), No MicroSD or internal USB

jessie-8.6.0-amd64-netinst

Nothing unusual in kernel logs.

Works fine, no firmware needed. No need to disable AHCI if boot order is configured appropriately in BIOS or iLO4. (System will beep before bootloader starts however.)

DL380 Gen9

Smart Array P440ar, SAS to HP 1-8 G2 Tape Autoloader, RAID-1 and 10

debian-8.5.0-amd64-CD-1.iso

Used HP's "Intelligent Provisioning" to configure RAID devices before starting installation. Installation itself straightforward (100 MB UEFI boot, 500 MB boot, rest LVM PV).

After installation and boot from internal storage some fixes: 1) firmware-linux-nonfree required for tg3. 2) Tape Autoloader not detected until installed kernel 4.6.3 from Jessie backports. 3) kernel parameters: nofb nomodeset nosplash vga=normal video=vesafb:off (may not all have been necessary) to get more than first few boot messages on local console.

DL380 Gen9

Smart Array P440ar, SAS, RAID-1

debian-8.2.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso

Worked fine. Post-install warnings about missing tg3 firmware in update-initramfs: installed firmware-linux-nonfree.

DL380 Gen9

Smart Array P440ar, SAS, RAID-6

debian-8.1.0-amd64-CD-1.iso

(1) Before installation, extract Debian firmware source package and place all tg3 files to root folder of the USB thumb drive for loading network driver during installation (2) Set UEFI BIOS in bootup setting (3) Manual partition during installation, create a 100MB partition and set as type EFI

Worked fine

DL320 G5p

Serial ATA

debian-8.1.0-amd64-CD-1.iso

Worked fine

G1610T Gen8 Microserver

Smart Array B120i, Broadcom NICs

debian-8.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso

Worked fine, no firmware required. Had to set "Enable SATA AHCI" under "System Options" in BIOS to get it booting from hard drive.

Wheezy

DL360p

Smart Array 420i, SAS, RAID-5

firmware-7.4.0-amd64-netinst.iso

Worked fine, firmware cd used for tg3

DL360 G2

Smart Array 5i, RAID-0

firmware-7.3.0-i386-netinst.iso

The Debian installer complains when it tries to detect the cd-rom/dvd. It says it's unable to detect it or it would just hang on that page. I'm not sure why but to fix it: press alt-f1 then enter. It will take you to a shell - check /dev and mount what you suspect is your optical drive (mount /dev/* /mnt works, no need for options) and if it works then you're good to go, alt-f2 to go back to the installer menus. I have no idea why this was necessary, I had /dev/cdrom dvd and sg0 and they all mounted fine which basically means there we're 3 devices pointing to my optical drive and yet the installer is not able to detect it.

If you use the installer on the link it should work fine except for what was mentioned on the installation report. The installer comes pre-loaded with additional non-free firmware blobs which helps as you don't need to modify the official iso's. I know this is a really, really old server but all the more you'd want Debian/linux on it. It's zooming now!

MicroServer G7 N54L

Serial ATA RAID-1

debian-7.6.0-amd64-netinst.iso

You only need to edit the installer commandline to add dmraid=true as explained in SataRaid wiki page. On booting I found the message "modprobe: module dm-raid45 not found in modules.dep" which I fixed editing /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/dmraid and changing dmraid-45 into dmraid

Works fine. VGA is Radeon, and complains about the firmware missing (no acceleration, reduced 2D performance). Installing the firmware-linux-nonfree package solves this issue (not sure if not installing it penalizes the CPU too much though).

Squeeze

DL980 G7

SAS Hotplug

debian-squeeze-di-rc2-amd64-netinst.iso

Worked mostly fine, needs firmware-netxen. NIC 1 & 2 not recognized in squeeze because of the missing firmware. NIC 3,4 worked fine.

BL685c G6

SAS Hotplug

debian-squeeze-di-rc2-amd64-netinst.iso

Worked fine, needs bnx2 firmware

BL685c G7

SAS Hotplug

debian-wheezy-DI-rc1-amd64-DVD-1.iso

Worked fine, needs firmware ; Xen 4.1 kernel crash without dom0_mem limit at 2048 (1024 is too low)

BL465 G5

SAS Hotplug

debian-squeeze-di-rc2-amd64-netinst.iso

Worked fine, needs bnx2 firmware

DL120 G6

SAS Hotplug

debian-6.0.4-amd64-netinst.iso

Worked fine, needs bnx2 firmware

DL580 G7

SAS Hotplug

debian-squeeze-di-rc2-amd64-netinst.iso

Worked fine, needs bnx2 firmware

DL380 G7

SAS Hotplug

debian-squeeze-di-rc2-amd64-netinst.iso

Worked fine, needs bnx2 firmware

DL380 G4

debian-squeeze-di-rc2-i386-netinst.iso

Worked fine, needs tg3 firmware

DL385 G5P

debian-squeeze-di-rc2-i386-netinst.iso

Worked fine, needs tg3 firmware

DL365 G5

Smart Array P400i SAS

debian-6.0.3-amd64-i386-netinst.iso

Installed through iLO2 remote console/virtual CD, Worked fine, needs bnx2 firmware

Lenny

DL580 G7

debian-505-amd64-netinst.iso

The version of the netxen_nic driver in lenny doesn't support the onboard nics - squeeze works fine though

BL685c G6

debian-502-amd64-DVD-1.iso

driver (bnx2x) missing for network controller, should be available in 5.0.3

BL460c G6

Boot from SAN

debian-504-amd64-netinst.iso

Worked fine, needs bnx2 firmware

DL160 G6

Smart Array P410 SAS

debian-504-amd64-netinst.iso

Worked fine

DL360 G5

SAS Hotplug

5.0r0 amd64

Worked fine, needs bnx2 firmware

DL360 G6

SAS Hotplug

5.0r0 amd64

Worked fine, needs bnx2 firmware

DL360 G6

HW RAID B110i

5.0r0 amd64

Hardware RAID logical volumes are invisible to OS, physical disks are exposed to OS, Debian could be installed but has to be handled with great care upon post-installation and when upgrading! See post #3 in this thread at linuxquestions which is a rough howto for CentOS. I would suggest disabling hardware raid and setting up software raid or no raid at all until the driver makes its way on the Linux Kernel, if it ever does.

DL365 G5

Smart Array E200i SAS

5.0.2 netinst i386/amd64, 5.0.2 DVD i386 and amd64

Worked fine, needs bnx2 firmware

DL380 G3

SCSI-RAID-1, RAID-5

Debian 5.0/CD-1

Working 100% perfectly; RAID setup using RAID BIOS option while booting

DL380 G6

Smart Array P411

debian-506-amd64-netinst.iso

Worked fine, needs bnx2 firmware

DL380 G7

Smart Array P410

debian-6.0.3-amd64-i386-netinst.iso

Worked fine, needs bnx2 firmware

ML350 G6

NetXen Add-on card (10gig/dual port)

5.0.2

The netxen_nic driver currently in Debian doesn't support this plug-in card. Need to use an updated kernel (>=2.6.27)

ML310e G8 v2

Non-hotswap

8.0.0 rc3

Works fine if you disable Dynamic Smart Array BS320i and enable SATA AHCI in BIOS. Non non-free firmware required! Installation report in #783066

Daily Builds

Daily builds are available from the d-i devel page.

Known Issues

cciss and hpsa

On a HP ProLiant ML350 G6 Tower server I discovered on a fresh installed Debian squeeze amd64, that I can not use the internal HP Ultrium LTO-2 SAS tape device, connected to a P212 SAS Smart Array controller with zero memory, mounted in a PCI-Express slot. The server has also a 2-port P410i Smart Array controller integrated on the mainboard.

The kernel module cciss, which comes with the 2.6.32 kernel, seems not to be able to handle the tape connected to the P212 controller. No device (/dev/st0) was available. And also lsscsi does only show the DVD drive, but no disks. Looking at /dev/cciss/ one can see, that for the disks and the tape, a device was created. In the kernel documentation (linux-source-2.6.32 package) or on the web one can read about how to handle that situation:

(Extract from /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.32/Documentation/blockdev/cciss.txt)


SCSI tape drive and medium changer support

SCSI sequential access devices and medium changer devices are supported and appropriate device nodes are automatically created. (e.g. /dev/st0, /dev/st1, etc. See the "st" man page for more details.) You must enable "SCSI tape drive support for Smart Array 5xxx" and "SCSI support" in your kernel configuration to be able to use SCSI tape drives with your Smart Array 5xxx controller.

Additionally, note that the driver will not engage the SCSI core at init time. The driver must be directed to dynamically engage the SCSI core via the /proc filesystem entry which the "block" side of the driver creates as /proc/driver/cciss/cciss* at runtime. This is because at driver init time,the SCSI core may not yet be initialized (because the driver is a block driver) and attempting to register it with the SCSI core in such a case would cause a hang. This is best done via an initialization script (typically in /etc/init.d, but could vary depending on distribution). For example:

        for x in /proc/driver/cciss/cciss[0-9]*
        do
                echo "engage scsi" > $x
        done

Once the SCSI core is engaged by the driver, it cannot be disengaged (except by unloading the driver, if it happens to be linked as a module.)

Note also that if no sequential access devices or medium changers are detected, the SCSI core will not be engaged by the action of the above script.


With using a kernel version 2.6.33 and above, there comes the hpsa module.

It used not be used automatically by the kernel. To get it working for me, I installed the kernel from experimental (2.6.36-rc6-amd64) and created the file /etc/modprobe.d/cciss_allow_hpsa.conf with one line of content 'options cciss cciss_allow_hpsa=y' to get the cciss driver to not load if hpsa can handle the devices better, according to this discussion and this information.

/!\ Take notice that /dev/cciss/c0d0, likely your boot device, may suddenly show up as /dev/sda instead. (This did not happen to me, but should be mentioned here)

After a reboot all works as expected and all the devices show also up with lsscsi.

root@debian:~# lspci -knn
...
04:00.0 RAID bus controller [0104]: Hewlett-Packard Company Smart Array G6 controllers [103c:323a] (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Smart Array P410i [103c:3245]
        Kernel driver in use: hpsa
14:00.0 RAID bus controller [0104]: Hewlett-Packard Company Smart Array G6 controllers [103c:323a] (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Smart Array P212 [103c:3241]
        Kernel driver in use: hpsa
root@debian:~# lsscsi 
[0:0:0:0]    storage HP       P410i            3.52  -       
[0:0:0:1]    disk    HP       LOGICAL VOLUME   3.52  /dev/sda
[1:0:0:0]    storage HP       P212             3.52  -       
[1:2:0:0]    tape    HP       Ultrium 2-SCSI   T65D  /dev/st0
[3:0:0:0]    cd/dvd  ATAPI    DVD A  DH16AAS   JHE5  /dev/sr0

For the upcoming stable version of Debian, squeeze, which will use the 2.6.32 kernel as standard, this given information will be hopefully helpful for others. I searched with some breaks nearly a week around to find a way to workaround.

See also the kernel documentation for further explanation.

Need bnx2 firmware

Several HP ProLiant systems use the Broadcom NetXtreme II network controllers. This network controller is supported by the bnx2 driver, but requires external non-free firmware. The installer will detect the absence of this firmware and prompt you for it at install-time. To avoid this, you can modify your install image to include the needed firmware. See this page for a script that does this (Please note that you have to edit the script because it's supporting without changes only the outdated "lenny" and current stable "squeeze" release.). Also details at DebianInstaller/NetbootFirmware. Alternatively, you can obtain non-official CD images with external firmware loading enabled; see Firmware. More details are available in this HP-provided document.

HP Repository

HP provides an apt repository for the ?ProLiant Management Component Pack. Repository details may be found at: http://downloads.linux.hpe.com/SDR/project/mcp

Or you may point apt directly at the repo with this line in /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://downloads.linux.hpe.com/SDR/repo/mcp jessie/current non-free

There's even a GPG key you can import in apt so it doesn't complain about untrusted sources.

See http://downloads.linux.hpe.com/keys.html for more details.

curl http://downloads.linux.hpe.com/SDR/hpPublicKey1024.pub | apt-key add -
curl http://downloads.linux.hpe.com/SDR/hpPublicKey2048.pub | apt-key add -
curl http://downloads.linux.hpe.com/SDR/hpPublicKey2048_key1.pub | apt-key add -
curl http://downloads.linux.hpe.com/SDR/hpePublicKey2048_key1.pub | apt-key add -

WARNING - the Debian repository is not always up to date. You can try the Ubuntu repository, something like:

deb http://downloads.linux.hpe.com/SDR/repo/mcp/ubuntu trusty/current non-free
   or
deb http://downloads.linux.hpe.com/SDR/repo/mcp/ubuntu xenial/current non-free

RAID Monitoring

AFAIU, cciss was supported in older distributions, whereas hpsa is the new kind of drivers.

cciss RAID controller driver

See LinuxRaidForAdmins#cciss

hpsa RAID controller driver

See LinuxRaidForAdmins#hpsa


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