RE: rootpre.sh

[Ehresmann, David]

That is what Oracle is saying.  That you need a 32-bit kernel extension to run 64bit Oracle.

thanks,

David Ehresmann

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Behrens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 12:56 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Subject: Re: rootpre.sh

David,

   I haven't installed Oracle 8.1.7 or 9.2 to AIX 5.1 yet, but thanks

to a data storage interrupt kernel panic on a 5.1 box, I do know

that 'crash' has been replaced by 'kdb' for examining crash dumps. 

So, rootpre.sh is going to break on the line

  'PKEXT_PATH='echo le | crash | blah blah blah...'

I think the question is - do you need the post-wait kernel

extension at AIX 5.1?  

 

I don't know about Oracle 8.1.7, but the 9.2 Installation Guide

(p. 2-35) says:  "For Oracle9i 9.2.0.1.0 on AIX 5L, the functon

and performance benefits of the Oracle post-wait kernel

extension are incorporated into the AIX kernel.  Oracle 9i

9.2.0.1.0 on AIX 5L does not require the Oracle post-wait

kernel extension to be loaded."

 

(This begs the question as to whether I still would need to run

rootpre.sh for asyncronous I/O configuration.  Presumably, I

could use smit to configure async I/O.)

 

It seems to me I read somewhere that 8.1.7 still requires a

32-bit kernel extension and therefore, you may not be able

to run a 64-bit AIX kernel with 8.1.7.  

Scott

>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2/11/03 12:59:53 PM >>>
I am trying to run rootpre.sh.  My admin just upgrade the kernel to 64-bit.
We were running 32-bit on this box and everything was fine.  No Oracle
software is running.  I am going to install 64-bit 8.1.7 Ent Ed for AIX 5.1L
when I got this trying to run rootpre.sh.
This is what I get when I run:
#./rootpre.sh
Installing kernel extension...

Oracle Kernel Ext.......
Copyright............

Kernel Extension Version: 3

nkext ver: 3
./rootpre.sh[199]: crash: not found.

is not loaded : 1
No post-wait kernel is loaded on the machine.

Copying new kernel extension.

Oracle Kernel Extension Loader for AIX
Copyright.............

Kernel Extension Version: 3
SYS_SINGLELOAD: Exec format error
kmid: 0 (0x0)
path '/etc/pw-syscall'
libpath:''

Configuring Asynchronous I/O...
Asynchronous I/O is already defined

thanks,
David Ehresmann   
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