Updating Kernel Packages And Applying Os Update Packages; Environment Where An Hdlm Device Is Not Used As The Boot Disk; Environment Where An Hdlm Device Is Used As The Boot Disk - Hitachi XP P9500 User Manual

4.2 Updating Kernel Packages and Applying OS Update Packages

When using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, you can update
kernel packages or apply OS update packages while HDLM is installed.
Table 4-1: HDLM Installation Environments in Which Kernel Packages Can Be
Updated or OS Update Packages Applied shows the HDLM installation environments
in which kernel packages can be updated or OS update packages applied.
Table 4-1: HDLM Installation Environments in Which Kernel Packages Can Be
Updated or OS Update Packages Applied
HDLM installation environment
Environments where an HDLM device is not used as the boot
disk
Boot disk environment
4.2.1 Environment Where an HDLM Device Is not Used as the Boot
Disk
To update a kernel package or apply an OS update package when an HDLM device is
not used as the boot disk:
1. Perform the procedure in 3.6.4 Performing a Re-installation of HDLM.
2. Update the kernel package or OS update package.
3. Execute the
For details about this utility, see 7.8 dlmupdatesysinit Utility for Updating System
Scripts.
4. Restart the host.

4.2.2 Environment Where an HDLM Device Is Used as the Boot Disk

To update a kernel package or apply an OS update package when an HDLM device is
used as the boot disk:
1. Perform the procedure in 3.6.4 Performing a Re-installation of HDLM.
2. Edit the configuration file by changing the OS startup definition so that the OS
will start with a SCSI device specified.
HDLM device
Logical volume (LVM2) on
an HDLM device
utility for updating system scripts.
dlmupdatesysinit
See:
4.2.1 Environment Where an HDLM Device Is
not Used as the Boot Disk
4.2.2 Environment Where an HDLM Device Is
Used as the Boot Disk
4.2.3 Environment Where a Logical Volume
(LVM2) on an HDLM Device Is Used as the Boot
Disk
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