Description of problem: Installing Red Hat Advanced Server AS 4 on a HP Proliant DL380G4 from basic iLO is no longer possible. As soon as the installation starts, i.e. before you get to the point where you can enter boot options to force a text based installation, the server switches to graphics mode, effectively rendering it inaccessible from basic iLO. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Red Hat EL AS 4. HP Proliant DL380G4 (haven't tried other systems yet) How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. insert installation CD1 in system 2. power on system 3. connect to basic iLO Actual results: screen goes into graphics mode prior to boot prompt Expected results: remain in text mode to allow selection of text or graphics mode Additional info:
We have the same problem. And IBM's RSA remote console is affected as well. This covers all recent HP and IBM hardware. (and probably other vendors) The result is that for doing remote installations we are forced into a java GUI that is slow and suffers from keyboard translation problems. Some keys are simply not mapped and numbers (ie. ip-addresses) cannot be typed in the Java GUI. Also a rescue boot becomes impossible because of this. A discussion of this problem can be found at: https://www.redhat.com/archives/redhat-list/2006-March/msg00167.html
The somewhat more correct reference would be: https://www.redhat.com/archives/redhat-list/2006-March/msg00143.html
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