On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 18:25 -0800, Pradipmaya Maharana wrote: > Hi All, > > Thanks for all your comments, it worked for installaions on partitions. Cool. > > Now the question is: > Is it supposed to work the same way if the SLES is installed on LVM? Supposed to :) > On SLES, under fstab, I do not see any device, except for the boot > device; other entries does not have /dev/deisk mention. In such I am not clear about what you are mentioning here. Can you annotate with a cut-n-paste of /etc/fstab ? > scenario, how am I supposed to make the /root device multipath-aware? > > I tried the same with RHEL, but with RHEL installed (with linux mpath) > on LVM, it seems to be working fine. Is there anything I am missing on > SLES? > > Thanks and Regards, > Pradipmaya. > > > > On Jan 7, 2008 11:17 PM, Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > Pradipmaya Maharana wrote: > > > RHEL Steps worked perfectly for me but i have a question for SLES installation. > > > > > > Question. While installing SLES on multipath devices, the second step says: > > > > > > " 2. Complete the installation. Let the system boot up in multiuser mode. > > > Make sure the root device, swap device are all referenced by their by-id > > > device node entries instead of /dev/sd* type names. If they are not, fix > > > them first." > > > > > > How do you check that root device and swap device are referenced by their by-id? > > > And if it is not referenced by the by-id, how do I fix it? Re-install? > > > > > Check /etc/fstab. Those devices should be listed as /dev/disk/by-id/XXX. > > If not (ie if their names are /dev/sdXX) look for the appropriate symlink > > in /dev/disk/by-id and edit /etc/fstab. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Hannes > > -- > > Dr. Hannes Reinecke zSeries & Storage > > hare@xxxxxxx +49 911 74053 688 > > SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg > > GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) > > > > -- > > > > dm-devel mailing list > > dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel > > > > -- > dm-devel mailing list > dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Chandra Seetharaman | Be careful what you choose.... - sekharan@xxxxxxxxxx | .......you may get it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
