Upgrading to RHEL 4

[Smith, Albert]

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> Rick Stevens
> Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 4:15 PM
> To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
> Subject: RE: Upgrading to RHEL 4
> 
> On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 15:07 -0500, Smith, Albert wrote:
> 
> > I know I requested Dell support to open an enhancement request with 
> > redhat but they are unable to do that. But they did file a bug. The 
> > problem is on their startup on RHEL4 they don't activate 
> the existing 
> > volumegroups nor do they scan for them. I am personally 
> unsure of how 
> > to drop out of the installer during the install to active 
> the volumegroups.
> > However I doubt that their upgrade scripts even have the command 
> > inserted to convert the LVM1 to LVM2 at this time.
> 
> Isn't EL3 on LVM2 already?  LVM2 has been around quite a while.
> 
> Anyway, ALT-F2, ALT-F3 or ALT-F4 (can't remember which) in 
> the installer brings up a shell.  You should be able to do a 
> "vgchange -ay" in there.
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No EL3 is LVM1 and with EL4 I tried all the ALT's and no go. I tried in
text and gui mode and it doesn't give you the ability to drop to a
shell. Dell/RedHat support confirmed it.

Albert Smith
Sr. Unix Systems Administrator
HPCSA, RHCT  
Genex Services
440 E. Swedesford Rd.
Wayne, PA 19087
albert.smith at genexservices.com
(610) 964-5154