Clusterware Install Stopped at OCR Location

The Oracle Universal Installer (OUI) stopped while installing Clusterware with the following error :

"The location /dev/dsk/xxx, entered for the Oracle Cluster Registry (OCR) is not shared across all the nodes in the cluster. Specify a shared raw partition or cluster file system file that is visible by the same name on all nodes of the cluster."

This is caused because the /dev/dsk is a block device and OUI does not recognize or use block devices. So in order to get it to continue, we had to point to the /dev/rdsk/xxx raw character device instead.

You need to bind raw devices and use these raw devices within OUI. See MetaLink Note: 363995.1 for a little more detail.

We also had to do the same thing for the voting disk.