[CentOS] Issues installing x86_64 5.1 on Ultra 40

Fri Dec 14 01:41:43 UTC 2007
Ray Van Dolson <rvandolson at esri.com>

On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 03:05:47PM -0800, James A. Peltier wrote:
> Ray Van Dolson wrote:
>> Hi all, for anyone interested in following this -- ended up having the
>> same issue with RHEL 5.1 and opened a bug (and support request):
>>
>>   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=420361
>>
>> Ray
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> I was able to use the CentOS 5.0 images to install on the 6 SUN Ultra 40 
> workstations that I have here in my labs.  This allowed me to get around 
> the 5.1 issues, and I performed a yum upgrade to get them to 5.1
>
> I would be interested in further details regarding the fix though if you 
> could please. :)

James are your machines Ultra 40 M2's or just plain ol Ultra 40's?
Ours is the non-M2 model and we had problems with 5.0 as well as 5.1.

However, it appears to be something related to LVM -- specifically
something the GUI installer is telling LVM to do.  If we manually set
up the partitions and LVM stuff (from the console while still at the
welcome screen), everything works fine.  It's only when anaconda
handles the partitioning and LVM setup that we run into issues.

Interesting.

Ray