On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 16:57 +0100, Robert McKenzie wrote: > 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. That is not scalable. When you manage hundreds of remote servers, you cannot get someone to walk into a locked-down data center, unplug the SAN, etc. We need to find a scalable way to fix this. If there is some magic I can include on the kernel command-line to tell it to not load qla2300 or only load qla2300 when local storage is not found, that would be ideal. /Brian/ P.S. Please don't top-post. > > -----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
