Re: Strange YaST error trying to install SLES 11 SP1

2012-03-27 Thread Michael MacIsaac
Mark, Have you tried making it something slightly different than an even 1GB? Say, 1030M? No I did not. However, it was almost certainly an issue with an FCP LUN. The first one I was given access to would not return an associated WWPN. I believe that confused the SLES installer in a couple of

Strange YaST error trying to install SLES 11 SP1

2012-03-23 Thread Michael MacIsaac
Hi, I'm trying to install SLES 11 SP1. I IPL the starter system, it finds it's disks and network and the NFS install server. It tries to start the VNC server, but then dies: starting VNC server... A log file will be written to: /var/log/YaST2/vncserver.log ... *** *** You can connect

Re: Strange YaST error trying to install SLES 11 SP1

2012-03-23 Thread Neale Ferguson
How big is your virtual machine? (I didn't mean to get personal.) On 3/23/12 12:26 PM, Michael MacIsaac mike...@us.ibm.com wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install SLES 11 SP1. I IPL the starter system, it finds it's disks and network and the NFS install server. It tries to start the VNC server,

Re: Strange YaST error trying to install SLES 11 SP1

2012-03-23 Thread Michael MacIsaac
Neale, How big is your virtual machine? 1G. (I didn't mean to get personal.) lol Mike MacIsaac mike...@us.ibm.com (845) 433-7061 -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: Strange YaST error trying to install SLES 11 SP1

2012-03-23 Thread Michael MacIsaac
More info on this ... It is looking like some flaky FCP disks: 0) Before the error I reported, I had gotten further: I laid out the file systems(including 4 FCP LUNs LVM'd together) and the RPMs installed. When the system tried to reboot from disk it died with hundreds of unknown uuids for the

Re: Strange YaST error trying to install SLES 11 SP1

2012-03-23 Thread Mark Post
On 3/23/2012 at 12:56 PM, Michael MacIsaac mike...@us.ibm.com wrote: How big is your virtual machine? 1G. Have you tried making it something slightly different than an even 1GB? Say, 1030M? I remember Red Hat having a problem with customers defining exactly 2GB in the past. Perhaps