Re: Installing RHEL AS 4.0 on HP rx7640
"Siddhartha Barua" <[email protected]> Fri, 3 Aug 2007 14:43:27 +0530
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--===============1917156049== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_81345_5092931.1186132407926" ------=_Part_81345_5092931.1186132407926 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Hi Keith, Thank you very much for this priceless info. I will get in touch with u once i acquite & get over with RHEL U4 and before starting oracle - i m going to need ur support. Thanx regards Siddhartha On 8/2/07, Fahrenfort, Keith (PSS Americas Oracle) <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Siddhartha, I only receive the daily digest so this may well have been > answered already. > > Certification information for Linux on all HP Integrity servers can be > found here - www.hp.com/go/integritylinux: > > Under Certification Matrices click Integrity Servers, then click rx7640. > > Specifically, RHEL4 U4 is required for the rx7640 - see "*Minimum > Supported Red Hat Updates - *Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 4" link > here - http://h71028.www7.hp.com/enterprise/cache/423640-0-0-0-121.html. > > For installation tips, see the Documentation link -> *HP Integrity > Essentials Foundation Pack for Linux User's Guide* here - > http://www.docs.hp.com/en/5991-7635/5991-7635.pdf. > > If you will be installing Oracle on the server let me know, as there are > some specific patches required. > > I hope this helps! Thanks! Regards! > ------------------------------ > *Please let me know if you prefer to not receive email from me.* > ** > > > *Keith Fahrenfort* > Solutions Architect - Hewlett Packard > Oracle Competency Center > HP Americas Presales Shared Services > 20555 SH249, MS HOM7 > Houston, TX 77070 > 281.927.8611 - Direct Phone > 1.800.424.0993 option2 - OCC Team > [email protected] > *http://www.hp.com/go/oracle* > *For HP's privacy policy and contact information, please see here -* > http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/en/privacy.html > ------------------------------ > ------------------------------ > *From:* Siddhartha Barua [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Thursday, August 02, 2007 2:39 AM > *To:* Discussion of Linux on the Intel IA-64 processor > *Subject:* Re: Installing RHEL AS 4.0 on HP rx7640 > > > Hi Tony > > Yes, my RHEL is plain and i was doubting that. Can you pls confirm that HP > Itanium rx7640 needs at least U3, or U4, U5. I dont have any access to such > information. What i have is only RHEL Version 4 (Intel Itanium) and i am > failing with that for the last 2 weeks. > > Regards > Siddhartha > > > On 8/1/07, Luck, Tony <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > That looks like you have a plain RHEL4 (no updates) disk. I'm basing > > that on the " Loading initrd initrd-2.6.9-5.EL.img...done" > > message printed when you were trying to boot. The kernel (and thus > > initrd) version is probably plain RHEL4. By U3 the kernel > > version had reached 2.6.9-34, and by U5 (current version) it is 2.6.9-51 > > > > -Tony > > > > ------------------------------ > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > > *On Behalf Of *Siddhartha Barua > > *Sent:* Wednesday, August 01, 2007 1:57 AM > > *To:* Discussion of Linux on the Intel IA-64 processor > > *Subject:* Re: Installing RHEL AS 4.0 on HP rx7640 > > > > > > 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 > > > > regards > > Siddhartha > > > > On 7/31/07, Doug Chapman <[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 > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > ia64-list mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ia64-list > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > ia64-list mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ia64-list > > > > > _______________________________________________ > ia64-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ia64-list > ------=_Part_81345_5092931.1186132407926 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline <div>Hi Keith,</div> <div> </div> <div>Thank you very much for this priceless info. I will get in touch with u once i acquite & get over with RHEL U4 and before starting oracle - i m going to need ur support. Thanx</div> <div> </div> <div>regards</div> <div>Siddhartha</div> <div><br><br> </div> <div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/2/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Fahrenfort, Keith (PSS Americas Oracle)</b> <<a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>> wrote:</span> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"> <div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#000080" size="2">Hi Siddhartha, I only receive the daily digest so this may well have been answered already.</font></span></div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#000080" size="2"></font></span> </div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#000080" size="2">Certification information for Linux on all HP Integrity servers can be found here - <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.hp.com/go/integritylinux" target="_blank"> www.hp.com/go/integritylinux</a>:</font></span></div> <blockquote dir="ltr" style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#000080" size="2">Under Certification Matrices click Integrity Servers, then click rx7640.</font></span></div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#000080" size="2"></font></span> </div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#000080" size="2">Specifically, RHEL4 U4 is required for the rx7640 - see "<font face="Arial"><font color="#000000"><strong>Minimum Supported Red Hat Updates - </strong>Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 4</font></font>" link here - <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://h71028.www7.hp.com/enterprise/cache/423640-0-0-0-121.html" target="_blank"> http://h71028.www7.hp.com/enterprise/cache/423640-0-0-0-121.html</a>.</font></span></div> <div><font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#000080" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#000080"><span><font size="2">For installation tips, see the Documentation link -> <font face="Arial" color="#000000"><strong>HP Integrity Essentials Foundation Pack for Linux User's Guide </strong></font> here - </font><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.docs.hp.com/en/5991-7635/5991-7635.pdf" target="_blank"><font size="2">http://www.docs.hp.com/en/5991-7635/5991-7635.pdf </font></a><font size="2">.</font></span></font></div></blockquote> <div><font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#000080" size="2"><span>If you will be installing Oracle on the server let me know, as there are some specific patches required.</span></font></div> <div><font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#000080" size="2"></font> </div> <div align="left"> <div align="left"><font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#000080" size="2"><span>I hope this helps! </span>Thanks! Regards! </font></div> <div align="left"> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="310" border="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td width="390" colspan="2" height="15"> <hr align="left" width="305" color="#0a357e"> <div><font face="Century Gothic" size="1"><strong>Please let me know if you prefer to not receive email from me.</strong></font></div> <div><strong><font face="Century Gothic" size="1"><font size="1"><font face="Century Gothic"><font color="#000000"></font></font></font></font></strong> </div></td></tr> <tr> <td valign="center" align="justify" width="140" height="129"><font color="#000000" size="1"> <p style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px"><font color="#000000" size="2"><a title="http://www.hp.com/"></a><font color="#000080"></font><font color="#000080"></font><font color="#000080"></font><font color="#000080"></font></font><a title="http://www.hp.com/"> </a> </p></font></td> <td valign="top" width="250"> <div><strong><font color="#0a357e"><font size="2"><span>Keith Fahrenfort</span></font></font></strong></div> <div> <div><font size="1">Solutions Architect - Hewlett<span> </span>Packard</font></div> <div><font size="1"><span>Oracle Competency Center</span></font></div> <div><font size="1"><span>HP Americas Presales Shared Services </span></font></div> <div><font size="1"><span>20555 SH249, </span><span>MS HOM7</span> </font></div> <div><font size="1"><span>Houston, TX 77070</span></font></div> <div><font size="1"><span>281.<span>927</span>.<span>8611</span> </span><span>- Direct Phone</span></font></div> <div><font size="1">1.800.4<span>24</span>.<span>0993</span> <span>option2 - OCC Team </span></font></div> <div><span><font color="#000080"><font color="#0000ff" size="1"><a title="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a></font></font></span></div> <div><a title="http://www.hp.com/go/oracle"><font title="http://www.hp.com/go/oracle" size="1"><strong title="http://www.hp.com/go/oracle">http:/<span title="http://www.hp.com/go/oracle">/</span><span title="http://www.hp.com/go/oracle"> www.hp.com/go/oracle</span></strong></font></a></div></div></td></tr> <tr> <td valign="bottom" width="390" colspan="2" height="15"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black"><font size="1"><strong>For HP's privacy policy and contact information, please see here -</strong> </font><a title="http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/en/privacy.html"> <font title="http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/en/privacy.html" face="Futura Bk" size="1">http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/en/privacy.html</font></a></span><font size="1"> <hr align="left" width="305" color="#0a357e"> </font></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div> <div> <hr> <font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> Siddhartha Barua [mailto:<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank">[email protected]</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, August 02, 2007 2:39 AM <div><span class="e" id="q_11426ab8d4f609c8_1"><br><b>To:</b> Discussion of Linux on the Intel IA-64 processor<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: Installing RHEL AS 4.0 on HP rx7640<br></span></div></font><br> </div> <div><span class="e" id="q_11426ab8d4f609c8_3"> <div></div> <div>Hi Tony</div> <div> </div> <div>Yes, my RHEL is plain and i was doubting that. Can you pls confirm that HP Itanium rx7640 needs at least U3, or U4, U5. I dont have any access to such information. What i have is only RHEL Version 4 (Intel Itanium) and i am failing with that for the last 2 weeks. </div> <div> </div> <div>Regards</div> <div>Siddhartha<br><br> </div> <div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/1/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Luck, Tony</b> <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank">[email protected]</a> > wrote:</span> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"> <div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">That looks like you have a plain RHEL4 (no updates) disk. I'm basing that on the "<font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" size="3"> Loading initrd initrd-2.6.9-5.EL.img...done</font>"</font></span></div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">message printed when you were trying to boot. The kernel (and thus initrd) version is probably plain RHEL4. By U3 the kernel</font></span></div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">version had reached 2.6.9-34, and by U5 (current version) it is 2.6.9-51</font></span></div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"></font></span> </div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">-Tony</font></span></div><br> <div lang="en-us" dir="ltr" align="left"> <hr> <font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank">[email protected]</a> [mailto:<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank"> [email protected]</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Siddhartha Barua<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, August 01, 2007 1:57 AM<br><b>To:</b> Discussion of Linux on the Intel IA-64 processor<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: Installing RHEL AS 4.0 on HP rx7640<br></font><br> </div> <div><span> <div></div> <div>Hi Doug</div> <div> </div> <div>Thanks for your response.Appreciate it.</div> <div> </div> <div>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? </div> <div> </div> <div>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 <font face="Courier New">/sbin/grub-install. Further if i type "fdisk -l" the output is </font></div> <div>------------------------------------------------------------------------</div> <div>Disk /dev/sda: 73.4 GB, 73407865856 bytes<br>255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 8924 cylinders<br>Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes<br>------------------------------------------------------------------------ </div> <div> </div> <div>But i created 3 partitions and 2 were created by the SmartSetup CD. I am very confused as a newbee</div> <div> </div> <div>regards</div> <div>Siddhartha<br> </div> <div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/31/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Doug Chapman</b> <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank">[email protected]</a> > wrote:</span> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 18:40 +0530, Siddhartha Barua wrote:<br>> Hi All ! Greetings<br>><br>> I am trying to install RHEL AS 4.0 on HP Itanium rx7640currently with<br>> 1 73GB SCSI HDD through LSI 1030 SCSI Controller. I started with the<br>> HP Smart Setup CD. I am making only 3 partitions as follows:<br>> /boot/efi - type vfat - 100MB <br>> SWAP - 32GB (I have 16GB memory)<br>> / - type ext3 - 20GB<br><br>You should not need the smart setup CD anymore. You can let the Red Hat<br>installer create all the partitions.<br><br>><br>> The installation is successful, but when i reboot i get the following <br>> message:-<br>><br>> ELILO boot: Uncompressing Linux... done<br>> Loading initrd initrd-2.6.9-5.EL.img...done<br>> audit(1185269336.355:0): initialized<br>> i8042.c: i8042 controller self test timeout. <br>> Red Hat nash version 4.1.18 starting<br>> mkrootdev: label / not found<br>> mount: missing mount point<br>> mount: error 2 mounting none<br>> switchroot: mount failed: 22<br>> umount /initrd/dev failed: 2 <br>> Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!<br>><br>> I booted into the rescue mode and have tried the following commands:-<br>> e2label /dev/hda5 /<br>> e2label /dev/hda3 /boot (this didn't work) <br><br>The /boot filesystem is vfat, not ext2 so e2lablel won' work. Under<br>RHEL4 U4 /boot was not mounted by using a label so you should not need<br>to label it anyway (under RHEL4 U5 however it does us a label FYI). <br><br>I suggest trying a fresh install and tell the installer to remove all<br>existing partitions and create new ones. Let me know if you run into<br>any more issues.<br><br>- Doug<br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________ <br>ia64-list mailing list<br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank">[email protected]</a><br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ia64-list" target="_blank"> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ia64-list</a><br></blockquote></div><br></span></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>ia64-list mailing list<br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank"> [email protected]</a><br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ia64-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ia64-list</a><br></blockquote> </div><br></span></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>ia64-list mailing list<br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected] </a><br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ia64-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ia64-list</a><br></blockquote></div><br> ------=_Part_81345_5092931.1186132407926-- --===============1917156049== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ ia64-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ia64-list --===============1917156049==--