Re: Installing RHEL AS 4.0 on HP rx7640

On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 18:40 +0530, Siddhartha Barua wrote:
> Hi All ! Greetings
> 
> I am trying to install RHEL AS 4.0 on HP Itanium rx7640currently with
> 1 73GB SCSI HDD through LSI 1030 SCSI Controller. I started with the
> HP Smart Setup CD. I am making only 3 partitions as follows: 
> /boot/efi - type vfat - 100MB
> SWAP - 32GB (I have 16GB memory)
> / - type ext3 - 20GB

You should not need the smart setup CD anymore.  You can let the Red Hat
installer create all the partitions.

> 
> The installation is successful, but when i reboot i get the following
> message:-
> 
> ELILO boot: Uncompressing Linux... done 
> Loading initrd initrd-2.6.9-5.EL.img...done
> audit(1185269336.355:0): initialized
> i8042.c: i8042 controller self test timeout.
> Red Hat nash version 4.1.18 starting
> mkrootdev: label / not found
> mount: missing mount point 
> mount: error 2 mounting none
> switchroot: mount failed: 22
> umount /initrd/dev failed: 2
> Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
> 
> I booted into the rescue mode and have tried the following commands:- 
> e2label /dev/hda5 / 
> e2label /dev/hda3 /boot (this didn't work)

The /boot filesystem is vfat, not ext2 so e2lablel won' work.  Under
RHEL4 U4 /boot was not mounted by using a label so you should not need
to label it anyway (under RHEL4 U5 however it does us a label FYI).

I suggest trying a fresh install and tell the installer to remove all
existing partitions and create new ones.  Let me know if you run into
any more issues.

- Doug