HP ProLiant DL380 G5

= HP ProLiant DL380 G5 =

General information
Vendor: HP

Product Website: HP ProLiant DL380 G5 Server series- models

This is the list of all builtin devices in the default configuration. No further devices are added.

I'll try to describe the usage of as much as possible hardware devices and their features (like the iLO2 Card, monitoring of the CCISS-RAID devices, etc.)

Hardware
The Kernel configuration is based on sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.27-r5.

Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5708 Gigabit Ethernet
This server has a dual-port network card:

Edit the file /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 to load the module on boot:

CPU Frequency Scaling
CPU frequency scaling is possible with Xeon Woodcrest processors and the acpi_cpufreq module, but only after the ROM-Based Setup Utility has been used to select "Power Regulator for Proliant" and "OS Control Mode".

Harddisks/Partitions
The driver for the RAID controller doesn't provide the usual devicenames like /dev/sda. Instead they're named like this:

/dev/cciss/c0d0 → Controller 0; Disk 0

/dev/cciss/c0d0p1 → Controller 0; Disk 0; Partition 1

/dev/cciss/c0d0p2 → Controller 0; Disk 0; Partition 2

/dev/cciss/c0d1 → Controller 0, Disk 1

...

Partition numbering starts at 1, while controller/disk numbering starts at 0

...

in some cases cciss driver creates /dev/cciss!c0d0XX devices. It seems only 'mdev' (BusyBox' udev replacement) is affected by this. Follow this thread for more details.

GRUB
As GRUB isn't aware of this strange devicenames, you have to tell him manually where the harddisks are found by adding a line like this to your device.map:

Then start GRUB like this:

... and do the further GRUB setup as usual.