RE: RAC on VMWARE

Just to let everyone know, after sleeping on it overnight, I figured it out. I had inadvertently pointed the raw disks to the wrong locations. So when the voting disks were getting written too, it overwrote the OCR partition. Probably not a good thing. :-)

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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org]On Behalf Of Alex Gorbachev Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 3:49 PM
To: robertgfreeman_at_yahoo.com
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Subject: Re: RAC on VMWARE

No errors during OCR initialization before that? What does "ocrcheck" show?

On 5/4/07, Robert Freeman <robertgfreeman_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> Trying to install RAC on VMWARE (Win host, 2 RH Ent
> Linux as the guest OS that will run RAC).
>
> I've got both Linux servers up, networked, etc.
> Created the raw OCR and Voting disks to be shared.
>
> Started the clusterware install, all goes grant.
>
> It prompts me to run root.sh. I do. Root.sh pauses at
> the following:
>
> Startup will be queued to init within 30 seconds.
>
> after some digging I find the following error in a log
> file:
>
> Oracle Cluster Registry initialization failed with
> invalid format: PROC-22: The OCR backend has an
> invalid format.
>
> And it just sits.... and sits.... and sits....
>
> hellllo...
>
> RF
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