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Hewlett-Packard Co. will release the final processor upgrade for its AlphaServer line of Unix servers on Monday.
](http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/08/16/HNendofalpha_1.html)
Goodbye old friend.
[Check out the tombstone generator](http://tombstone.dogcrap.net/tombstone.php)
HP just won a large contract with Motorola which includes Debian running on Itanium.
From InternetNews, [HP Get Call for Carriers](http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3395271)
“Virtually each of the network equipment providers is migrating to next-generation platforms based on Linux,” Joy King, HP director of its worldwide marketing for its network and service provider business, told internetnews.com.
HP has modified the Debian Linux distribution to optimize it for carrier grade systems
Also in CNET, [Motorola and HP in Linux tie-up](http://news.com.com/Motorola+and+HP+in+Linux+tie-up/2100-1039_3-5311739.html) and Information Week [Motorola To Incorporate Integrity Systems Into 3G Call Path](http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=29100410)
Office
Archaeologists will notice the ‘Digital is a Software Company’ coffee mug, the ‘Compaq Solutions Alliance Test Drive Linux license plate’ and the various ‘hp invent penguins’
Yesterday I needed to fix the MBR of a ProLiant (Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 2.1) by reinstalling grub and grub-install just won’t work.
grub-install assumes that the boot device is in the form /dev/hda or
/dev/sda and since most ProLiant use a SmartArray RAID controller its
boot device is typically /dev/cciss/c0d0.
So, in order to recover this is what I did:
* In /etc/grub.conf (a link to /boot/grub/grub.conf) uncomment the
line that looks like this:
boot=/dev/cciss/c0d0
* Make sure /boot/grub/device.map is setup right and looks like this:
(fd0) /dev/fd0
(hd0) /dev/cciss/c0d0
* Run grub like this:
/sbin/grub --batch --device-map=/boot/grub/device.map
--config-file=/boot/grub/grub.conf --no-floppy
grub> root (hd0,0)
grub> setup (hd0)
grub> quit
Hope that helps!
Most of the current generation hp ProLiant servers (really all
except the very low cost ones) have an embedded management chip,
the
Integrated Lights Out (iLO).
The cool thing is you can drive all the iLO’s operations (power on/off
server, user admin, etc) by sending XML across SSL to it’s NIC. HP
has recently put out some sample perl to show you exactly how to do
this.
Be sure to have the perl modules IO::Socket::SSL
installed.
Check it out: HP Lights-Out Perl Scripting Sample
My group is moving offices soon and everyone is tossing out stuff so
it doesn’t have to be moved.
Treasures uncovered so far:
* “VMS Forever” and “I (heart) My VAX” bumperstickers (watch for it on ebay.com
)
* Desktop-VMS 1.0 and 1.1 CDs — Circa 1989 ‘ease of use’ VMS distro. Just pop
the CD in the drive and it leads you through creating a VAX cluster of VAXstat
ion 3100s. Included of number of DECwindows-based (X11 with DECW$ toolkit) sys
tem management apps designed for the VMS newbie.
* Compaq 1998 project plan for “Linux Investigation” — Mostly produce install
docs for ProLiant 1850R & AlphaServer 800 for the Linux 2.2 kernel.
* Andy Goldstein’s 5-May-1988 memo to VMS V5 Development Team about the Kevin M
itnick breakin and the procedures on how we were going to verify 100% of the co
de.
* LaTeX-generated printout of “Real Programmers write in Fortran” about Mel the
programmer
* LaTeX-generated printout of “Real Programmers Don’t Use PASCAL”
* Bunch of Perl Journals (RIP)
* Marketing glossies for MailWorks for UNIX (aka OSF/1, aka Tru64)
* Christmas holiday card from the Microsoft MCIS Product Team
* Christmas holiday card from Red Hat
* Unopened(!) Microsoft Internet Explorer Internet Bro
wser for Windows 95 (required 386DX, 8MiB memory, 1-3MiB disk, 14.4 bps or fast
er modem)
* Bunch of 2400b Scholar Modems
* External 100MiB SCSI disk (MAC connectors)
* Addy’s birth announcement web page (April 1998) printed out in color on high
gloss
Can’t wait to see what gets uncovered today!
This document describes the concepts and steps necessary to config
ure
and boot Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 on a diskless HP
ProLiant BL20p G2 server blade using iSCSI to connect across the
TCP/IP network to an HP StorageWorks SR2122 iSCSI Storage Router.
These concepts and methodologies can be successfully applied to
similar scenarios.
Basically it describes how to use the UNH iSCSI stack to build a
custom initrd that when downloaded via PXE will bring up the IP
network and then mount the root filesystem on an iSCSI served disk.
Pretty cool if you ask me, but I’m biased…
Just a little guerilla promotion for HP and myself ;-)
There are more Linux-focused technical whitepapers on HP’s ActiveAnswers’
site. Take a look here,
here,
here,
and here
I was pleasantly surprised by the strong Linux flavor on the current
edition of the HP default webpage.
HP homepage on 10 Oct 2003
I recently picked up through my company’s employee purchase program a nice HP 318 camera. It is only 2.31 megapixel, but it works out of the box with debian (thanks gphoto2 and gtkam!), has a CF slot so with a 256M card it can hold almost 300 pictures at its highest resolution. The kids and I have been going crazy taking pictures of pretty much everything.
Self portrait
The Beast
Picture of our living room rug — suitable for screen background (click t
o download)
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