Upgrading to RHEL 4

[Rick Stevens]

On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 15:07 -0500, Smith, Albert wrote:

> I know I requested Dell support to open an enhancement request with
> redhat but they are unable to do that. But they did file a bug. The
> problem is on their startup on RHEL4 they don't activate the existing
> volumegroups nor do they scan for them. I am personally unsure of how to
> drop out of the installer during the install to active the volumegroups.
> However I doubt that their upgrade scripts even have the command
> inserted to convert the LVM1 to LVM2 at this time.

Isn't EL3 on LVM2 already?  LVM2 has been around quite a while.

Anyway, ALT-F2, ALT-F3 or ALT-F4 (can't remember which) in the installer
brings up a shell.  You should be able to do a "vgchange -ay" in there.

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