RHEL 4 and HP dx5150

[Rick Stevens]

On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 18:23 -0300, Mauro Gasparri wrote:
> 
> Same problem without using LVM, grrrrrrrrrr. But no "error reading",
> obviously. 

But where did it die without LVM?  What did the F3 console say?

> 
> I feel lost. 

Hmmmm.  This is weird.  It sure looks like an incompatiblity with
a previous LVM installation.

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> 
> 
> On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 17:53 -0300, Mauro Gasparri wrote:
> > 
> > No luck with "linux noapic". Also no update for BIOS. It's courious,
> > but both on HP and Red Hat web sites, it says that RHEL 4 is
> certified
> > for HP dx5150. 
> > 
> > Tryed disabling APIC from BIOS also. 
> > 
> > When I go to install log (via Ctrl+Alt+3), y see: 
> > 
> > formatting / as ext3 
> > formatting /boot as ext3 
> > error reading swap label on /dev/VolGroup00: [Errno 21] Is a
> > directory 
> > error reading xfs label on /dev/VolGroup00: [Errno 21] Is a
> directory 
> > error reading jfs label on /dev/VolGroup00: [Errno 21] Is a
> directory 
> 
> Oh, you're using LVM.  It looks suspiciously like a disk configuration
> issue here with the LVM volume groups.  The system is trying to locate
> the disk labels on VolGroup00 and isn't finding them.  Therefore it
> can't format the new filesystems since it doesn't know where they are.
> 
> > Tryed with another hard disk, with no success. 
> 
> Can you try it WITHOUT using LVM just as a test and see how that goes?

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