[colug-432] SLES10 sp3 upgrades

[Travis Sidelinger]

I've opened tickets with Novell.  Got some initial responses for some
more info, but do not have their resolutions yet.

I also opened a ticket "complaining" that kernel upgrades remove the old
working kernel.  Redhat's approach of keeping the old kernel is much
better as, what if the new kernel does not work.  Then you are SOL and
stuck looking for the rescue cd while the system is down.  That's simply
non enterprise quality in my opinion.



Angelo McComis wrote:
> Travis
>
> Thanks for the note. We has several go ok but then one (a pretty
> important one) go toes-up during the upgrade.  We suspected that the
> bootloader was not written correctly, but sounds like your diagnosis
> is more accurate here.
>
> Have they offered an update to the patch/migration package?
>
> -- 
> - Angelo
>
> via mobile device
>
> On Dec 18, 2009, at 10:35 AM, Travis Sidelinger
> <travis at ilive4code.net> wrote:
>
>> All SLES10 owners:
>>
>> Just some information to share.  Recently I've patched and upgraded our
>> SLES10 systems (30+).  Ran into some issues.  Without fail Novell never
>> lets me down there.
>>
>> Watch out for LVM not enabled at boot within the initrd.  You'll need
>> to:  mkinitrd -f lvm2
>>
>> And, watch out on HP Proliant hardware for the cciss driver not in the
>> kernel.  You'll need to update /etc/sysconfig/kernel and add cciss to
>> the list of initrd modules.
>>
>>
>> -Travis Sidelinger
>>
>>
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