Re: SL 6.7 Fails to finish install and more.

2015-10-10 Thread Larry Linder
Removed 5 th disk and tried a LVM install and it did not see disk 2, 3, 4 and you could not find if they were mounted or ? - nothing. Decided to go back to orig. hand lay out and when you get it done it says that sda must have a GPT disk Label. There are no provisions to do this and its not

Re: SL 6.7 Fails to finish install 6th

2015-10-09 Thread Larry Linder
On Thursday October 8 2015 1:03 pm, Lamar Owen wrote: > On 10/07/2015 04:10 PM, Larry Linder wrote: > > It appears that at least from our experiments SL cannot handle more than > > 4 hard disks and this goes back to at least 5.9. SL 6.7 identifies the > > disks as all sda - sde but fails to

Re: SL 6.7 Fails to finish install 5th try

2015-10-08 Thread Lamar Owen
On 10/07/2015 04:10 PM, Larry Linder wrote: It appears that at least from our experiments SL cannot handle more than 4 hard disks and this goes back to at least 5.9. SL 6.7 identifies the disks as all sda - sde but fails to mount 5th disk. I'm sure that it is not SL that cannot handle more

Re: SL 6.7 Fails to finish install 4th try

2015-10-07 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 1:51 PM, Larry Linder wrote: > > On Tuesday October 6 2015 11:07 am, Larry Linder wrote: >> First step was to remove the 5th disk from the system. I was mounted as >> /sde1 After this is complete the install finished with out a problem. >>

Re: SL 6.7 Fails to finish install 5th try

2015-10-07 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 4:10 PM, Larry Linder wrote: > Install fails because it can't write /boot to GPT partitioning. SL5 does not > understand this but relies on Master Boot Record. > > It appears that at least from our experiments SL cannot handle more than 4

Re: SL 6.7 Fails to finish install 4th try

2015-10-07 Thread Larry Linder
On Tuesday October 6 2015 11:07 am, Larry Linder wrote: > First step was to remove the 5th disk from the system. I was mounted as > /sde1 After this is complete the install finished with out a problem. > > A long time ago we ran into this problem and it had to do with the number > of devices. >

Re: SL 6.7 Fails to finish install

2015-10-06 Thread Larry Linder
First step was to remove the 5th disk from the system. I was mounted as /sde1 After this is complete the install finished with out a problem. A long time ago we ran into this problem and it had to do with the number of devices. We used to run 32 SCSI drives on a server using two 16 device cards

Re: SL 6.7 Fails to finish install

2015-10-05 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
First step is "stop partitioning and getting cutesy with your layout at install time." Adding extra disks and software configs, especially the /mysql that may conflict with SELinux, is begging for trouble at install time. See if you can bring it alive with a bare installation, on sda only.

SL 6.7 Fails to finish install

2015-10-05 Thread Larry Linder
Dear Sir: We are building a new server and decided to use SL 6.7 The system is a quad core AMD with 32 G Ram and 5 T bytes of disk space. The OS is installed on the sda1 - 10 /engr is installed on sdb1 /mysql is install on sdc1 /backup01 is on sdd1 /backup02 is on sde1 The install progresses