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. :-) RF Robert G. Freeman Oracle Consultant/DBA/Author Principal Engineer/Team Manager The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Father of Five, Husband of One, Author of various geeky computer titles from Osborne/McGraw Hill (Oracle Press) Sig V1.1 -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Alex Gorbachev Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 3:49 PM To: robertgfreeman@xxxxxxxxx Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: RAC on VMWARE No errors during OCR initialization before that? What does "ocrcheck" show? On 5/4/07, Robert Freeman <robertgfreeman@xxxxxxxxx> 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 > > > Robert G. Freeman > Author: > Portable DBA: Oracle (Oracle Press) > Oracle Database 10g New Features (Oracle Press) > Oracle9i RMAN Backup and Recovery (Oracle Press) > Oracle9i New Features (Oracle Press) > Oracle Replication (Rampant Tech Press) > Mastering Oracle8i (Sybex) > Oracle8 to 8i Upgrade Exam Cram (Coriolis <RIP>) > Oracle 7.3 to 8 Upgrade Exam Cram (Coriolis <RIP>) > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- Best regards, Alex Gorbachev http://www.oracloid.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l