Hi Chris, The easiest solution is unplugging the fiber cables from the HBAs during the installation. In case that this is not an option for you, you may want to take a look at http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_79_8927.shtm Hope this helps, give us some feedback. Best, Juli -----Mensaje original----- De: kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] En nombre de Chris Edillon Enviado el: martes, 05 de junio de 2007 5:34 Para: Discussion list about Kickstart Asunto: Re: Kickstart issue Brian Long wrote: > On 6/1/07, Shabazian, Chip <Chip.Shabazian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> This is a problem for us as well. The most reliable solution I've been >> given (but haven't had time to try) is to bust open your initrd and >> change >> the entry for your HBA to "ignore" in the /modules/pcitable file. >> >> There are a number of options that are SUPPOSED to work, like latefcload, >> but it hasn't worked for us. > > latefcload was added in a fairly recent update for RHEL 3, but I don't > know if it's in RHEL 4. "nostorage" is another option only for RHEL 4 > (and probably RHEL 5, but I have not tested it). On my previous team, > we specified "nostorage" for all servers and then ks.cfg contained > "device scsi cciss" for HP. This made sure we didn't overwrite any > SAN storage. > latefcload seems to be there at least since RHEL4u3, and it's there in RHEL5. we couldn't make much use of it, though, except in conjunction with ignoredisk in RHEL5. the stubs seem to be there for ignoredisk in the anaconda that comes with RHEL4, but it is silently ignored. using noprobe/nostorage hasn't been an option for us either, since we have a single kickstart for all of our machines instead of one per hardware type. haven't taken the time to see about writing a %pre script which would look at the available storage devices from a known list and generate the proper device line for the ks.cfg. besides, it makes sense to let anaconda probe the hardware since it's pretty good at doing so accurately. what i'd *really* like to see is the ability to use the device command to ignore certain devices instead of specify, i.e. "device scsi qla2xxx ignore" which would load all of the probed scsi drivers except for qla2xxx. any anaconda developers out there listening...? chris _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
