I had the same problem.. what I ended up doing was disconnected the external storage cabinet during the build.. But this sounds more like a bug than anything else. File it with Red Hat. James S. Martin, RHCE Contractor Administrative Office of the United States Courts Washington, DC (202) 502-2394 kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx wrote on 10/12/2004 06:09:36 PM: > Be careful when building via kickstart with RHEL3 and update 3, if > you have multiple scsi_hostadapters. Whichever adapter the PCI scan > sees first will be aliased to scsi_hostadapter in modprobe.conf. > > Here's what happended to me... > > I ran my normal kickstart scripts on a Compaq server with a cpqarray > scsi_hostadapter and a lpfc scsi_hostadapter. The cpqarray is, of > course, the Compaq local SCSI array, and lpfc is the driver for the > Emulex HBA fibre card. > > Using RHEL3 update 3, the lpfc driver is detected right out of the > box (good), and on this server it was detected *before* the local cpqarray > driver (bad). In my kickstart scripts I have "clearpart --all", and since > the SAN drive was detected first, the SAN drive was wiped clean, and a > new OS was installed on the SAN -- not *at all* what I wanted. > > So, I'm open to suggestions as to an elagant way to create a kickstart > install that forces the order of the scsi_hostadapters. > > Jason > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
