Re: Delaying Fibre Channel cards during install

[Brian Long <brilong cisco com>]

On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 10:06 -0500, Matt Hyclak wrote:
> In the Release Notes for RHEL4, it is mentioned that certain kernel modules
> for FC cards are delayed so that local disks are recognized first. My LSI
> card (mptscsih) isn't listed among those modules (lpfc and qlcxxxx). Is
> there any way I can ensure my 3ware module is loaded before the mpt modules,
> causing my local disks to show up before my external storage? In addtion to
> FC, I also have local SCSI controller which currently has no disks attached
> to it, but it would be good to be able to be certain that the 3ware card is
> loaded first so that kickstarts don't accidentally reformat something it's
> not supposed to.

Pass "nostorage" on the kernel command line and then add "device scsi
3ware" or whatever the 3ware module is called in ks.cfg.

/Brian/

-- 
       Brian Long                      |         |           |
       IT Data Center Systems          |       .|||.       .|||.
       Cisco Linux Developer           |   ..:|||||||:...:|||||||:..
       Phone: (919) 392-7363           |   C i s c o   S y s t e m s