Oracle Grid Installer cannot list available disks

Question

Hi all,
I'm trying to install Oracle Database 11g R2 64-bit with ASM on an Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.5 64-bit.
The problem I'm facing is that the Grid Infrastructure Installer cannot list available disks. In the setp of creating Diskgroups, I only see blank disk.
Following the main actions I took:
[root@srv07 ~]# fdisk /dev/sdb
Command (m for help): n
Command action
   e   extended
   p   primary partition (1-4)
p
Partition number (1-4): 1
First cylinder (1-1638, default 1):
Using default value 1
Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (1-1638, default 1638):
Using default value 1638
Command (m for help): w
The partition table has been altered!
Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.
Syncing disks.
[root@srv07 ~]# rpm -qa | grep oracleasm
oracleasm-support-2.1.3-1.el5
oracleasm-2.6.18-194.el5-2.0.5-1.el5
[root@srv07 ~]# oracleasm configure -i
Configuring the Oracle ASM library driver.
This will configure the on-boot properties of the Oracle ASM library
driver.  The following questions will determine whether the driver is
loaded on boot and what permissions it will have.  The current values
will be shown in brackets ('[]').  Hitting <ENTER> without typing an
answer will keep that current value.  Ctrl-C will abort.
Default user to own the driver interface [grid]:
Default group to own the driver interface [asmdba]:
Start Oracle ASM library driver on boot (y/n) [y]:
Scan for Oracle ASM disks on boot (y/n) [y]:
Writing Oracle ASM library driver configuration: done
[root@srv07 ~]# /usr/sbin/oracleasm createdisk DISK1 /dev/sdb1
Writing disk header: done
Instantiating disk: done
[root@srv07 ~]# /usr/sbin/oracleasm listdisks
DISK1
[root@srv07 ~]# /usr/sbin/oracleasm scandisks
Reloading disk partitions: done
Cleaning any stale ASM disks...
Scanning system for ASM disks...The log generated by the Installer can be viwed from: http://www.ahmedbaraka.com/temp/infralog.txt
Any guideline is appreciated.

Answer 1

Hi Srini,
I have tried as you mentioned like installing Java in C:\Java... and I have tried the by setting the JRE_LOCATION of local path. No use of it.
tried with -jreloc and setting the java path in environment variables too.
As I understand, the problem i have seen at files copied path is not expected as required. Please see the path below...
C:\DOCUME~1\v859971\LOCALS~1\Temp\OraInstall2013-09-06_03-36-31PM\jre\bin\javaw.exe.
After running the Setup.exe -deinstall... temporary folder is creating with timestamp and all the required files are coping here...
"jre" folder also created and copied required java files directly into jre folder, but not in jre\bin folder.
folder path is like this
C:\DOCUME~1\v859971\LOCALS~1\Temp\OraInstall2013-09-06_03-36-31PM\jre\javaw.exe.
Setup application is expecting jre\bin\javaw.exe, but folder structure is created as jre\javaw.exe. There it is coming the issue.
I have even tried with copying all the files into bin folder and executed the setup.exe, it again creating a new temporary file
not able to resolve it...