Maybe you could try using "--onbiosdisk=80" instead of "--ondisk=sda"?
Reference: http://linux.dell.com/installermagic.shtml
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Arvind Navale
Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 12:36 PM
To: RHEL-v5 OS Group
Subject: [rhelv5-list] RHEL-v5.x OS Installation
Hi Folks,
I am testing installing RHEL 5.x OS on a sun hardware Sun Fire-x4200 system. It
has 4 internal drives and I have setup a mirror raid volume using disks in
Slot-0 and 1, disks in slot-2 and 3 are left as it is. I am installing
RHEL-v5.x OS on this hardware using kickstart process. I am able install the OS
fine but apparently I am seeing that OS is not installed on the mirror raid
volume, instead its installing on disk in Slot-2. I believe this is happening
because disks in Slot-2 and 3 are probed first and then mirrored raid volume.
In the kickstart profile I have mentioned install disk to be 'sda' in kickstart
profile hoping that mirrored raid volume is probed first and assigned 'sda'
device ID by OS which apparently is not happening.
I have tested the same by Installing RHEL-v4.x and see that mirrored raid
volume is picked up first and remaining disks later. So here the OS is
installed as expected. From this I understand that probing has changing with
RHEL-v5.x compared to RHEL-v4.x.
After installing OS on the hardware platform I am testing Bare Metal Restore
recovery process and I see that with version 5.x OS, during the BMR recovery
process, BMR is creating filesystem on /dev/sda (independent disk) and grub is
loading boot loader on /dev/sdc (mirrored raid volume).
Creating swap filesystem on /devAdding 16779884k swap on /dev/sda3.
Priority:-1 extents:1 across:16779884k
/sda3
Activating swap device /dev/sda3
Creating ext3 filesystem on /dev/sda5
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on sda5, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Creating ext3 filesystem on /dev/sda6
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on sda6, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Creating ext3 filesystem on /dev/sda7
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on sda7, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Creating ext3 filesystem on /dev/sda1
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on sda1, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Creating ext3 filesystem on /dev/sda2
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on sda2, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Restoring / file system ...
Restoring /opt file system ...
Restoring /var file system ...
Restoring /appl file system ...
Restoring /boot file system ...
Installing GRUB boot loader onto /dev/sdc
Bare Metal Restore is complete.
Press ENTER to reboot system :
Can anyone please help me resolve the issue with version 5.x OS install to pick
proper disk.
Thank you,
AN
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