I faced the same problem with a Dell 2550 with two raid adapters. You can pass a noprobe option to the boot kernel and create a initrd.img that has the scsi adapters in the proper order. Ron On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 12:37, James_Martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list -- =========================== Ron Reed RedHat Certified Engineer SGP Computer Department Manager Unix Systems Administrator ARM SGP CART Site (580)388-4053 ron.reed@xxxxxxx
