Upgrading to RHEL 4

[Rick Stevens]

On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 16:22 -0500, Smith, Albert wrote:
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> > Rick Stevens
> > Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 4:15 PM
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> > Subject: RE: Upgrading to RHEL 4
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> > 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

Really?  Hmmm.  Oh, wait, EL3 is (loosely) based on FC1.  D'oh!  Yeah,
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.

Oh, lovely!  One of the most useful debugging tools they have and they
disable it.  Sheesh!  It appears you're SOL unless you build a custom
anaconda.

Wait a sec...could you create a kickstart disk that had that your
necessary LVM commands as part of the "%pre" section?  That might get
around it.

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