Is there a way to disable hardware for kickstart?
Cameron, Thomas
Thomas.Cameron at bankofamerica.com
Fri Jan 14 21:19:27 UTC 2005
> -----Original Message-----
> From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Jeremy Katz
> Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 9:36 AM
> To: Discussion list about Kickstart
> Subject: Re: Is there a way to disable hardware for kickstart?
>
>
> On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 10:16 -0500, Brian Long wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 16:53, Cameron, Thomas wrote:
> > > I am trying to kickstart a RHEL 3 box with both internal
> disks and SAN
> > > attached storage. Unfortunately the internal storage is
> > > /dev/cciss/c0d0 and the SAN stuff is seen as /dev/sda,
> /dev/sdb and so
> > > on. The server boots off of internal disks (/dev/cciss/c0d0) but
> > > kickstart wants to write the boot record to the SAN (/dev/sda).
> [snip]
> > The other way around it is to use the drive ordering to
> specify cciss
> > first. I've not tested this, however:
> >
> > bootloader --driveorder=cciss,sda
>
> This is the recommended way to do it (syntax would be --
> driveorder=cciss/c0d0,sda though)
>
> In the future, there's some logic to bump the "known" FC controller
> modules to the end of the list of modules for ordering. This
> is will be
> in RHEL4 and enabled by default and also available for use in RHEL3 U5
> if you boot with 'linux latefcload'. Should hopefully make some
> people's lives easier.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jeremy
Awesome, thanks very much to both of you for the help!
Thomas
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