Description of problem: I am trying to install RHEL AS 3 on a 4 way pSeries 570. The system has two IDE CD / DVD Drives and three internal SCSI hard disks. It also has two fibre channel cards connected to two SAN Switches. I am using an HMC which is serially connected to the pSeries box. There is only one LPAR with all the resources given assigned to it and it is set as AIX / Linux LPAR. I have followed the manual very strictly and I still face this problem, I booted from SMS and pressed enter on the boot: prompt. The SCSI drivers are loaded and then I Performed media check after which the CD proceeds to initialiazing anaconda, while anaconda is coming up I recieve this error message: Running anaconda, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux system installer - please wait... Probing for video card: Unable to probe Probing for monitor type: Unknown monitor Probing for mouse type: No - mouse No video hardware found, assuming headless Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda",line 999,in ? iutil.makeDriveDeviceNodes() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/iutil.py" line 395, in makeDriveDeviceNodes isys.makeDevInode(drive, "/dev%s" % (drive,)) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/isys.py", line 358, in makeDevInode _isys.mkdevinode(name,fn) SystemError: (2, 'no such file or directory') install exited abnormally sending termination signals Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot from CD 2. press enter at boot: 3. skip media check Actual results: Anaconda failed to initialize. Expected results: Anaconda Initialization to an interactive session. Additional info:
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I too have seen this issue trying to do a Boot From SAN with RHEL3 u8 (2.4.21- 47-smp. Would you please cc on any resolution to this issue. The following was the config I was trying. HP RX4640 & RX7620 QLogic qla2342 & qla2442 McData 3216 & Brocade Silkworm 4100 MSA1500, EVA5000 A/A, EVA8000. Running anaconda, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux system installer - please wait... Probing for video card: ATI Radeon 7000 Probing for monitor type: Unknown monitor Probing for mouse type: Generic - 3 Button Mouse (USB) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 1007, in ? iutil.makeDriveDeviceNodes() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/iutil.py", line 395, in makeDriveDeviceNodes isys.makeDevInode(drive, "/dev/%s" % (drive,)) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/isys.py", line 373, in makeDevInode _isys.mkdevinode(name, fn) SystemError: (2, 'No such file or directory') install exited abnormally sending termination signals...done sending kill signals...done disabling swap... unmounting filesystems... /mnt/runtime done disabling /dev/loop0 /proc/bus/usb done /proc done /dev/pts done /tmp/ramfs done /mnt/source done you may safely reboot your system
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