Support Notes for Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 4.7 for HP Integrity Servers

2. Signal the init process to re-read the inittab file with the following command:
kill -HUP 1
3. If you are logged in to the console, exit then log in again to restart the agetty process.
Installation
• Installation failure when using autopartition
The installation of RHEL ES 4.7 might fail if using the autopartition function on a server
with multiple disks.
If you encounter this issue, remove all disks from the server except those on which you are
installing RHEL ES 4.7. Replace the removed disks once the OS installation on the targeted
disks is complete. You may then need to edit the device file name of the /boot/efi mount
point in the /etc/fstab file because the device file may have changed when the disks
were replaced.
• Simultaneous installations of RHEL 3 and 4
If you have RHEL ES 3 installed on a disk partition on your server and want to install RHEL
ES 4.7 on another, you must change the name of your boot manager entry on the RHEL ES
3 partition. This is because RHEL 3 and 4 use the same name for the boot manager entry.
Before installing RHEL 4, you must change the name of the RHEL ES 3 boot entry. The EFI
Boot Manager does not have a rename function to use to rename the RHEL ES 3 entry so
you have to add a new boot entry.
To add a new EFI boot entry, select the Boot Option Maintenance menu (also called Boot
Configuration in new EFI Boot Managers), and then add a new boot entry for RHEL ES 3
using a unique name with the same boot parameters as the existing RHEL ES 3 entry.
• Load order of drivers may be altered
If you are transitioning to RHEL ES 4.7 from either RHEL 3 or RHEL 2.1, recognize that the
load order of storage and networking drivers in this OS version is the reverse of the order
in RHEL ES 3 and 2.1. The numbers on the device file names for your NICs appear in the
opposite order than the previous versions of RHEL.
• Load of RHEL failed error
After installing the operating system, if a message similar to the following is displayed, you
must take action.
Loading.: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Load of Red Hat Enterprise Linux
failed: Not Found Press any key to continue
Execute the following steps from the EFI shell:
1. Enter the following commands to reconnect and regenerate all mappings:
Shell> reconnect -r
Shell> map -r
2. Boot to the operating system by exiting the shell by entering exit.
3. Select the EFI boot menu entry for the installed operating system.
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