Thanks - that might work, too. Kevin
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nikolas Lam Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 5:09 PM To: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (Tikanga) discussion mailing-list Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [rhelv5-list] Ignore SAN during install? On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 16:03 -0800, 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? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Kevin > > > > ps – including the RHEL5 list as well as the RHEL4 list. I got this from a Red Hat Global Professional Services consultant (cheers Dean, if you're reading this). I've just extracted it from a satellite kickstart profile for a RHEL5 box we have - I suppose it might work with RHEL4 too. Put the following %pre script block in your kickstart file to prevent the listed drives from being used by fdisk/lvm/mkefs: %pre cat <<EOF > /tmp/partitioning ignoredisk --drives=sda,sdb,sdc,sdd,sde,sdf,sdg,sdh,sdi,sdj,sdk,sdl,sdm,sdn,sdo,sdp,sdq,sdr,sds,sdt,sdu,sdv,sdw,sdx key 49af89414d147589 EOF In your partitioning section, include the file that you create in the pre script by adding this line %include /tmp/partitioning And then correct for the drive-ordering that might mean that your HBA-accessible drives come before your local storage. In this case, I wanted the local HP smartarray disk to come before all the HBA disks. Use the following line: bootloader --location mbr --driveorder cciss/c0d0,sda,sdb,sdc,sdd,sde,sdf,sdg,sdh,sdi,sdj,sdk,sdl,sdm,sdn,sdo,sdp,sdq,sdr,sds,sdt,sdu,sdv,sdw,sdx N.B. I have no idea what the "key 49af89414d147589" does in the pre script - I've never noticed it before today. Anyone? Regards, Nik _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
