On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 16:08 -0400, Beamon, John wrote: > That helped. I didn't have the terms to search for. There's a > boot option "nostorage" that will skip disk drivers. You then > put "device scsi qla2300" to load only Qlogic as "/dev/sda" or > "device scsi qla2300:mptscsih" to load both Qlogic and mptbase > cards. I do NOT find that this method allows you to specify > Qlogic as "/dev/sdb" or "/dev/sda" in a two-controller list. > > I also stumbled across a native kickstart boot option "latefcload", > which loads fibre channel drivers last among all scsi modules. > This is a good basic way to install the OS on local drives without > having to worry about nuking an attached SAN volume. > i wish i had found that information about a year and a half ago. on that project i ended up hacking the initrd.img and stage2.img so the HBA drivers weren't loaded during kickstart. i take it you had success with "latefcload"? chris
