We have the same problem with out Dell EMC SAN. The only way I've gotten around it was to disconnect the fibre from the machine being kicked started. On first reboot plug it back in. It's a headache but seems to be the only reliable way to get around it. -----Original Message----- From: kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Brian Long Sent: 25 October 2005 16:36 To: kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Ignoring SAN devices during kickstart? Hello, We running into interactive kickstart issues when specifying specific "clearpart" and "bootloader" directives and other devices (i.e. /dev/sda) are read-only EMC SAN devices. Anaconda consistently says "The partition table on device sda was unreadable." and asks if I want to initialize this drive. Since this is the EMC Volume Logix LUN, it's read-only and needs to be disregarded. What are folks doing when they re-kickstart a machine with SAN LUNs presented? On our HP Proliants, I've started specifying drive order cciss/c0d0 so Anaconda doesn't tell GRUB to install to /dev/sda. Any other tips would be appreciated. If I have 30 LUNs presented to a machine and some of those LUNs are formatted with Sun labels, Anaconda asks me if I want to format them. I'd rather tell Anaconda to just proceed with loading to cciss/c0d0 and disregard these LUNs. In our RHEL 3 customized distro, we actually removed the qla2x00 drivers from the boot images to avoid overwriting SAN data. Now we're trying to use the untouched RHEL 4 boot images and running into all these issues. Thanks for any help! /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 _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list To report this email as spam click https://www.mailcontrol.com/sr/wQw0zmjPoHdJTZGyOCrrhg== TCv0mf2rI!8A5HVV5Qz5YSGfnUssFB9X752PnfZ+ZPYwd4ixF065tcsqUnXEt4TCGE!Koqps hAlU4I+QGQhvcWu00+UlDnkj+hFhVRR10F2dKeedcDpZfkg0gYa4wF3SN+E31NqKvM0Lkn2P D8NFvzUBZv6ueekOKrI5QEcfQxZelNDjQizYcNb .
