nostorage was what I was thinking off. I'll try it next time and see if it's still in the latest rh/centos installer.
-Brent On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 1:11 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > I tried this a while back and found that if there is another module that > wants to load and it depends on qla2xxx, then qla2xxx get loaded anyway.** > ** > > So basically, you’d have to find all the modules (that depend on qla2xxx) > that “could” get loaded and blacklist them as well.**** > > Such a pain.**** > > ** ** > > ESX kickstart has an option to disable san disks.**** > > Why can’t redhat?**** > > It’s so much more simple than all these workarounds.**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Dirk Willemans > *Sent:* Wednesday, February 01, 2012 10:35 AM > > *To:* Discussion list about Kickstart > *Subject:* Re: How do I disable san/fiber channel connectivity at boot > whenusing the RH/Centos 6 installer**** > > ** ** > > You can blacklist a module when you start the installation.**** > > ** ** > > for example: **** > > ** ** > > append initrd=/boot/initrd.img blacklist=qla2xxx > > Grtz,**** > > ** ** > > Dirk**** > > On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 15:56, Allen, Jack <[email protected]> wrote: > **** > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Kovacs, Corey J. > Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 9:27 AM > To: Discussion list about Kickstart > Subject: RE: How do I disable san/fiber channel connectivity at boot > whenusing the RH/Centos 6 installer > > Not sure if it's still useful but there used to be a 'nostorage' option > you could put on the boot line. Then you had to specify what you wanted to > load in the preamble of the kickstart file. Not sure if it's still there > tho. For example. > > device scsi cciss > > would work for rhel4/5 and HP gear. > > On rhel6+, you'd put > > device hpsa > > for the same machine since the driver changed. > > > Another option is to figure out what storage drivers get loaded for your > hardware and explicitly unload them in the %pre section if the install, for > example. > > %pre > modprobe -r qla2xxx > > > There are other ways but these have worked for me. Also, make sure if you > are doing kickstarts with FC connected that your SAN is set up properly and > fibre switches zoned etc or you could end up with a bunch of empty luns > across the san. > > Hope this helps. > > > Corey > > ________________________________________ > From: [email protected] [[email protected]] > on behalf of Vratislav Podzimek [[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 6:18 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: How do I disable san/fiber channel connectivity at boot when > using the RH/Centos 6 installer > > On Tue, 2012-01-31 at 13:41 -0600, Brent Clements wrote: > > How do I disable san/fiber channel connectivity at boot when using the > > RH/Centos 6 installer? > > > > We have a ton of luns that are provisioned to this server and it takes > > a long time for us to scroll through the disks to find the local diskyou > w > > for the install when we manually provision a system. is there a nosan > > or nofiberchannel option for the boot options when booting a boot iso? > > > Where do you have such a long list? If you choose "Specialized Storage > Devices" then you have a screen with tabs. Only the last one (for > searching) contains all items. If you want to find your local disk, just > stay on the first tab -- "Basic Devices". There shouldn't be any of your > luns on this tab. > I don't understand what could be a problem here. > > -- > Vratislav Podzimek**** > > [Jack Allen] > When I had this problem on a system a while back, I just unplugged the FC > cable and did the install because I only needed the local disk to store the > OS on. Data would be on the SAN LUNs and setup later. Then when it was time > to reboot after the install completed, I plugged the FC cables back in. > > > ------------------------- > Jackson C. Allen > McKesson Provider Technologies > 5995 Windward Parkway > Alpharetta, GA 30005 > (404) 338-2023 > [email protected] > Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is > for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential > and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or > distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please > contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original > message.**** > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list**** > > ** ** > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list >
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