Re: Installing RHEL AS 4.0 on HP rx7640

Siddhartha Barua wrote:
> Hi Doug
>  
> Thanks for your response.Appreciate it.
>  
> As you said, i am reinstalling without Smart Setup CD. I would just 
> want to clarify from you, the RHEL4 that i am using is definitely for 
> Itanium but i cant figure out if its U4 - that's not mentioned 
> anywhere. If its only RHEL4 (without an update) will it work?
>  
> Further, i also tried to boot into rescue mode from installation media 
> disk 1 to reinstall the Boot Loader as it was not there. But to my 
> surprise i could find /sbin/grub-install. Further if i type "fdisk -l" 
> the output is
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Disk /dev/sda: 73.4 GB, 73407865856 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 8924 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  
> But i created 3 partitions and 2 were created by the SmartSetup CD. I 
> am very confused as a newbee
>  

Siddhartha,

Please see

https://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/x8664-multi-install-guide/

for details on EFI and installating RHEL4 on ia64.

P.


> regards
> Siddhartha
>  
> On 7/31/07, *Doug Chapman* <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>     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
>
>
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