Thanks - is nostorage supported on RHEL4? I didn't see it in the "boot options" appendix of the docs...
Kevin -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Joshua Baker-LePain Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 4:41 PM To: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (Tikanga) discussion mailing-list Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [rhelv5-list] Ignore SAN during install? On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 at 4:13pm, Sandor W. Sklar wrote > > On Dec 16, 2008, at 4:03 PM, Collins, Kevin [BEELINE] wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I am working on kickstarting RHEL4 servers with SAN-attached >> disks. The disks hang off of Qlogic HBAs, for which there is a generic >> qla2xxx driver being loaded. I would like to prevent the SAN disks from >> being "seen" during the install - anyone know of a way to do that? >> > > The *only* sure way I know of doing this is by blocking off the ports on the > switches while doing the kickstart. I've (or my co-workers) have hosed too > many SAN-disk-resident filesystems in the past trying to get around this > problem (which we only have on Linux; its never been an issue on AIX or > Solaris, but that's probably just because of the deterministic method of > device enumeration on those operating systems.) You can use the 'nostorage' boot option, which will, shockingly, not load any storage related drivers. In your kickstart, then, you'll need to use the 'device' flag to tell it which storage drivers you *do* want to load. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
