Solution Quick Start Guide | HP Graphics Server Blade Red Hat Enterprise Linux Quick Start
Installing RHEL on a WS460c G6 or later with HP RGS
Please use Red Hat installation documentation for detailed instructions and configuration for RHEL 5 and 6.
This section only highlights certain steps that may be required for successful installation on a WS460c.

Required Installation steps for RHEL

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For installation and configuration the systems should be in “Setup” (Gen8) or “Both Add-in and Embedded
Video Enabled” (Gen9) mode.
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For production use, the system should be switched to “user mode” (Gen8) or “Add-in Video Enabled,
Embedded Video Disabled”(Gen9) mode.
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The Nouveau drivers that comes with RHEL can cause a kernel panic during installation. For that reason,
when starting the installation, you may need to select the following option: “Install system with basic
video driver.” (See Figure 6.0.) Otherwise, the installation may freeze.
Figure 21. Red Hat installation menu

Suggested Post-Installation configuration steps on a WS460c
The WS460c can run in two graphical modes. The first is where the ATI (G6) or Matrox (Gen8 and Gen9) GPU are
the primary GPU, and the other is where the system only sees the NVIDIA card. In order to accommodate these
two modes, it is recommended in most cases to create two xorg.conf configurations that can dynamically
switch between X11 configurations for each mode. The following process describes one way to do this.
Note: This procedure is a configuration example, as with most things Linux, there may be more than one way to
accomplish this task. In this procedure we show you how to create two separate X configuration depending on
boot mode. It is possible to run in “Setup” mode with all cards on and only configure the NVIDIA card and not do
a multi configuration as described below. If you run in this mode, it will work but the SUV/iLO console will not
function once you enable X server to run NVIDIA cards as all video will be redirected to NVIDIA.
1. Download the latest supported WS460c NVIDIA driver from the HP support web site and put it into the
/tmp directory. http://www8.hp.com/us/en/drivers.html
2. Download the HP RGS Linux installation pack and put it into the /tmp directory.
http://www.hp.com/go/rgs
3. Set up the system BIOS for installation
a. WS460c Gen9
i. Set video mode
1. Connect to the blade using either the iLO remote console or a local SUV
connector.
2. When prompted during boot, press the F9 key.
3. Select System Configuration and press ENTER
4. Select BIOS/Platform Configuration and press ENTER
5. Go to and select System Default Options  Restore Default Options and
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