Support Notes for Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS v.3 for the Itanium Processor on HP Integrity Servers
Support Note for Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS v.3 for the Itanium® Processor on HP Integrity Servers
Issues and Known Problems
Chapter 110
NOTE If your system has already crashed, remove all drives connected to the
A6826A and A7538A cards, reboot, then run the commands below. If your
system doesn’t reboot after removing the drives connected to these two
cards, remove all remaining external drives, then execute the commands
below.
a. Locate the devices with the pre-installed/restore image partitions:
1. Type D=(mount | grep 'on / ' | awk '{print $1}' | sed -e
's/[0-9]//g') and press
Enter.
b. Add filesystem labels to the devices:
1. Type tune2fs -L /myroot ${D}4 and press
Enter.
2. Type tune2fs -L /myhome ${D}5 and press
Enter.
c. Modify the /etc/fstab file to use mount-by-label:
1. Type sed -e "s,${D}4,LABEL=/myroot," -e "s,${D}5,LABEL=/myhome," \
< /etc/fstab > /tmp/fstab and press
Enter.
2. Type mv -f /tmp/fstab /etc/fstab and press
Enter.
d. Modify the file /boot/efi/efi/redhat/elilo.conf file to use mount-by-label:
1. Type sed -e "s,${D}4,\"LABEL=/myroot\"," \
< /boot/efi/efi/redhat/elilo.conf > /tmp/conf and press
Enter.
2. Type mv -f /tmp/conf /boot/efi/efi/redhat/elilo.conf and press
Enter.
e. Reboot your system.
NOTE If disks are added or removed and swap and EFI boot partitions fail to
mount, you may see the following respective messages:
a. Activating swap partitions: swapon: /dev/sda3: No such
device or address [FAILED]
The swap partition fails to mount because the Linux 2.4 kernel used by
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS v. 3 does not support mount-by-label for
swap partitions.
b. Mounting other filesystems: Mount:/dev/sda1 is not a valid
block device. [FAILED]