Settings For Using A Logical Volume (Lvm2) On An Hdlm Device As A Boot Disk - Hitachi XP P9500 User Manual

/dev/sddlmaa6 on /usr type ext2 (rw)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
Check the underlined section.
30. If Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 10, or SUSE
LINUX Enterprise Server 11 is used, make sure that the HDLM device is
allocated to the swap partition.
Make sure that the HDLM device name is displayed in the
the
/proc/swaps
3.7.5 Settings for Using a Logical Volume (LVM2) on an HDLM
Device as a Boot Disk
This subsection describes how to migrate a single-path boot disk environment that uses
a logical volume (LVM2) on a SCSI device to a multi-path boot disk environment that
uses a logical volume on an HDLM device. Note that if the settings are incorrect, the
OS might not start.
In this subsection, the procedure assumes that you are using
default boot loader in Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 10,
or SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 11.
To migrate a single-path boot disk environment that uses a logical volume (LVM2) on
a SCSI device to a multi-path boot disk environment that uses a logical volume on an
HDLM device:
1. Log in to Linux as a user with root permissions.
In an HDLM environment, a SCSI device cannot be identified from the value set
in
LABEL
setting. Perform steps 3 to check whether
2. If the OS is SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 10 SP3 or later, specify
multipath=off
Make sure that
loader configuration file. The following example shows how to specify
multipath=off
• When ELILO is used as the boot loader:
image = vmlinuz-2.6.16.60-0.54.5-default
file.
. Before installing HDLM, therefore, you must remove the
in the boot loader configuration file.
multipath=off
:
:
:
label = 51
3. Creating an HDLM Environment
GRUB
is set.
LABEL
has been set in the
kernel
column of
Filename
or as the
ELILO
LABEL
line of the boot
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