Re: Copying an rhel as 3 installation from a PowerEdge 2650 to a 2950

Gene <[email protected]> Tue, 10 Apr 2007 15:06:42 -0700
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None that I know of.  On the website I see I have plenty of update and
virtualisation entitlements, but no provisioning.

I'm not sure what these are.  Would a provisioning entitlement allow me to
install a system to a desired level?

-Gene

On 4/10/07, Stanley, Jon <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>  Do you have provisioning entitlements on RHN.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: [email protected] <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
> Sent: Tue Apr 10 16:47:38 2007
> Subject: Copying an rhel as 3 installation from a PowerEdge 2650 to a 2950
>
> Hola,
>
>   I'm tasked with adding a fourth system to an Oracle cluster, and a
> requirement is that it's at the same patch level.  I have been unable to
> find a redhat utility to take care of this, so rather spend time in RPM hell
> I decided to do file systems dumps of one of the cluster nodes and load it
> up on the other box. I copied an install from a PowerEdge 2650 to a 2950.
>
>   These systems use different RAID controllers for the boot disk.  Because
> of this I have to load a new driver/module (megaraid_sas).  But, it is not
> working.  When I try to boot I get:
>
> VFS: Cannot open root device "LABEL=/" or 00:00
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> Kernel panic: VFS: Uname to mount root fs on 00:00
>
>   I'm assuming that the megaraid_sas module is not being loaded.  If I do
> a fresh install from CD I can get the driver installed.  How does Redhat
> load kernel modules?  Because the system panics I can't scroll back to to
> verify what hardware is recognised.
>
>   Also, if anyone knows of a way to make one system match another system's
> patch levels that would be awesome.  I am able to register the systems on
> RHN.
>
> Thanks for your time.
>
> RedHat AS 3 Update 4
> Dell PowerEdge 2950
>
> -Gene
> [email protected]
>
>
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