Hi, Maybe you can try the command partprobe.
partprobe - inform the OS of partition table changes Met vriendelijke Groeten, Tom Adriaansen OpenVMS , Tru64 , Storage & Linux (RHCT) > > > Message: 4 > > Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 09:30:34 -0500 > > From: Eugene Vilensky <[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: [rhelv5-list] cannot create new logical volumes > > To: "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (Tikanga) discussion mailing-list" > > <[email protected]> > > Message-ID: > > <[email protected]> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > > >> Any ideas what is preventing me from seeing the new disks with the > >> "fdisk" command? Thanks in advance. > > > > What does syslog say? > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 12:06:23 -0700 > From: John Oliver <[email protected]> > Subject: [rhelv5-list] When, oh when... > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > ...will the following issues be addressed in RHEL5? > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476671 > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2008-0005 > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2008-0002 > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2008-1232 > > -- > *********************************************************************** > * John Oliver http://www.john-oliver.net/ * > * * > *********************************************************************** > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 14:16:12 -0500 > From: Chris Adams <[email protected]> > Subject: [rhelv5-list] Re: When, oh when... > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Once upon a time, John Oliver <[email protected]> said: > > ...will the following issues be addressed in RHEL5? > > Since these bugs are all filed against Fedora, I'd say never. Have you > opened support cases against RHEL? > > However: > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476671 > > Fixed Tue Dec 16 2008 in openssl-0.9.8e-7. > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2008-0005 > > Fixed Mon Jan 07 2008 in httpd-2.2.3-11.el5_1.1. > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2008-0002 > > In the report: > > Versions Affected: > Tomcat 6.0.5 to 6.0.15 > > RHEL 5 ships tomcat5-5.5.23 so appears not affected. > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2008-1232 > > Fixed Fri Aug 22 2008 in tomcat5-5.5.23-0jpp.7. > > I suggest next time RTFM before complaining. > -- > Chris Adams <[email protected]> > Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services > I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 19:45:54 -0400 > From: Matthew Saltzman <[email protected]> > Subject: [rhelv5-list] Install problem on older machine > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain > > I have an old machine with a 366MHz Celeron, 128MB, and an nVidia NV6 > Vanta video card (according to lspci). I went to install RHEL5 on it, > but the installer keeps failing. Even in text mode, it gets through the > first several setup screens, then the screen flashes and displays a > screenful of odd characters in 24x80 mode, then it stops and has to be > powered off to reboot. > > I tried the vesa driver and the noprobe option, but the result is the > same. Is this a hopeless cause? Or is there a way to upgrade without > using the installer? > > I have RHEL4 running on it with no problem, but I'd like to upgrade, as > I want to use this machine as a test platform for my main server, which > runs RHEL5, and there is software I use that isn't packaged for RHEL4. > > TIA. > > -- > Matthew Saltzman > > Clemson University Math Sciences > mjs AT clemson DOT edu > http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 16:21:24 +0800 > From: John Summerfield <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [rhelv5-list] Install problem on older machine > To: "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (Tikanga) discussion mailing-list" > <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > > Matthew Saltzman wrote: > > I have an old machine with a 366MHz Celeron, 128MB, and an nVidia NV6 > > Vanta video card (according to lspci). I went to install RHEL5 on it, > > but the installer keeps failing. Even in text mode, it gets through the > > first several setup screens, then the screen flashes and displays a > > screenful of odd characters in 24x80 mode, then it stops and has to be > > powered off to reboot. > > > > I tried the vesa driver and the noprobe option, but the result is the > > same. Is this a hopeless cause? Or is there a way to upgrade without > > using the installer? > > > > I have RHEL4 running on it with no problem, but I'd like to upgrade, as > > I want to use this machine as a test platform for my main server, which > > runs RHEL5, and there is software I use that isn't packaged for RHEL4. > > > > TIA. > > > Read the documentation. I think you don't have enough RAM, and if you > have enough RAM to run Anaconda, I think you will find RHEL isn't > supported on that hardware, so that you would be as well off running > CentOS. > > On that hardware, if I chose to use it at all, I'd be running Debian. > > > -- > > Cheers > John > > -- spambait > [email protected] [email protected] > -- Advice > http://webfoot.com/advice/email.top.php > http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 > > You cannot reply off-list:-) > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 7 > Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 16:32:21 +0800 > From: John Summerfield <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [rhelv5-list] Re: When, oh when... > To: "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (Tikanga) discussion mailing-list" > <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > > Chris Adams wrote: > > Once upon a time, John Oliver <[email protected]> said: > >> ...will the following issues be addressed in RHEL5? > > > > Since these bugs are all filed against Fedora, I'd say never. Have you > > opened support cases against RHEL? > > According to the bug reports, they are against "all Linux." Presumably, > that would include RHEL. > > Two are classified as "NEW." > > RH has a serious problem or two handling bugs. Where a bug is reported > against Fedora, it does not have any check to see whether it applies > also to RHEL. > > For example, I reported a bug in Anaconda wrt FC6. If one does a > kickstart install, and enables LDAP, and then creates user accounts, > there are exceeding long timeouts because user management is trying to > use LDAP to add users, but LDAP is not running. > > Somone decided to close the bug "because it's so old." Even though the > problem exists equally in RHEL5 (and quite likely earlier releases). > > I think John's presuption that two of these bugs aren't fixed is > reasonable, because they are not marked "closed." > > > > > -- > > Cheers > John > > -- spambait > [email protected] [email protected] > -- Advice > http://webfoot.com/advice/email.top.php > http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 > > You cannot reply off-list:-) > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 8 > Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 07:59:30 -0400 > From: solarflow99 <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [rhelv5-list] Install problem on older machine > To: "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (Tikanga) discussion mailing-list" > <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > I think 128 MB should work in text mode, if he can say exactly where it > stops and what it says on the screen I might be able to guess. Do you > have > another stick of ram you can throw in it? > > > > On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 4:21 AM, John Summerfield < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Matthew Saltzman wrote: > > > >> I have an old machine with a 366MHz Celeron, 128MB, and an nVidia NV6 > >> Vanta video card (according to lspci). I went to install RHEL5 on it, > >> but the installer keeps failing. Even in text mode, it gets through > the > >> first several setup screens, then the screen flashes and displays a > >> screenful of odd characters in 24x80 mode, then it stops and has to be > >> powered off to reboot. > >> > >> I tried the vesa driver and the noprobe option, but the result is the > >> same. Is this a hopeless cause? Or is there a way to upgrade without > >> using the installer? > >> > >> I have RHEL4 running on it with no problem, but I'd like to upgrade, as > >> I want to use this machine as a test platform for my main server, which > >> runs RHEL5, and there is software I use that isn't packaged for RHEL4. > >> > >> TIA. > >> > >> Read the documentation. I think you don't have enough RAM, and if you > > have enough RAM to run Anaconda, I think you will find RHEL isn't > supported > > on that hardware, so that you would be as well off running CentOS. > > > > On that hardware, if I chose to use it at all, I'd be running Debian. > > > > > > -- > > > > Cheers > > John > > > > -- spambait > > [email protected] [email protected] > > -- Advice > > http://webfoot.com/advice/email.top.php > > http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart- > questions.html<http://www.catb.org/%7Eesr/faqs/smart-questions.html> > > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 > > > > You cannot reply off-list:-) > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > rhelv5-list mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: https://www.redhat.com/archives/rhelv5- > list/attachments/20090520/e11a6779/attachment.html > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > rhelv5-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list > > > End of rhelv5-list Digest, Vol 27, Issue 18 > ******************************************* _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
