Re: DL360 G3 FC3 boot problem

[Brian Long <brilong cisco com>]

On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 12:14, Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 07:43:18PM -0500, Brad Clemmons Jr wrote:
> > Well, I think i have what happened.  It looks like the boot loader
> > never got installed properly even though I did get a Install finished
> > page on the gui (did the graphical install).  I used the Fedora Rescue
> > CD to get to a shell then:
> > chroot /mnt/sysimage
> > grub-install /dev/cciss/c0d0
> > rebooted
> > 
> > It works now.
> 
> Yes, I saw that with RHEL4, too. sda and hda get ordered before
> /dev/cciss/c0d0 and anaconda installs the bootloader on these. Since
> FC connected SANs appear as /dev/sdN you often get stuck.
> 
> I solved this by disabling the port on the FC switch the box was
> connected to during installation. Would be nice if anaconda (and thus
> kickstart) had an explicit setting to where to place the bootloader.

In ks.cfg:
bootloader --driveorder=cciss/c0d0,sda,hda

/Brian/

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