check this out... specifically the bit about it defaulting to ks.cfg in root directory of media:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=235489 On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 15:36, Jason Keltz <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Greg, > > I believe /dev/disk/by-label is available, and I looked into using that, but > still, if the usb key becomes /dev/sda, then this will effect installation > of bootloader, etc. hard to work around. > Does red hat not support installation via usb key? > I'm not using multipath so I don't have /dev/disk/by-scsi-id.. > In this particular case, the system has a 3ware 9750-8e card (which is > referred to first in bios).. > > I wish there was some way to force the usb device as being sdb. > > jas. > > Greg Swift wrote: >> >> in the stage2 environment check to see if /dev/disk/by-label is >> available. If it is, and you know or can change the label of your usb >> device, you should be able to reference this. >> >> I know that in the multipath bits they are trying to push more heavily >> into using the /dev/disk/by-scsi-id/ for disk handling in rhel 6 >> anaconda. >> >> -greg >> >> >> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 15:18, Jason Keltz <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Ges, >>> >>> Thanks for your reply. >>> Does this mean that kickstarting from a USB key is just not reliable? >>> You have to be able to specify a device during kickstart, and if you >>> don't >>> know what the device that represents the hard disk will be, then what do >>> you? >>> I could "calculate" it on the fly, and modify the kickstart process >>> accordingly, but if there are multiple disks in the system, and I want to >>> be >>> able to specify which of those devices will be used for kickstart, then >>> this >>> messes things up .. >>> Once a system is kickstarted, you can use labels, etc. to identify disks, >>> but assuming you're starting with a totally blank hard disk, who knows >>> what >>> device the kernel will see.. >>> >>> I remember this was an issue years and years ago .. can't believe we >>> haven't >>> found a better way to handle this under Linux yet... >>> >>> sigh.. >>> >>> Jason. >>> >>> >>> Grzegorz Witkowski wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> /dev/... devices may not be persistent between reboots. >>>> It is not a bug. The kernel usually just assigns unpredictable device >>>> names based on the order of discovery. See udev related info. >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Ges >>>> >>>> On Wed, 2011-06-15 at 15:44 -0400, Jason Keltz wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hi. >>>>> >>>>> I'm kickstarting a new Red Hat 6.0 system from a USB key. >>>>> I've kickstarted it many times from the key in the last week, and the >>>>> USB >>>>> key is recognized as sdb, and the system hard disk as sda. >>>>> However, this morning, I went to kickstart, and the USB key was >>>>> suddenly >>>>> being recognized as sda which, of course messed up the process. >>>>> I tried it various times, and it continued to be that way. >>>>> I then had to leave it for a while because I was busy with other stuff. >>>>> When I came back, the hard disk is now being recognized as sda, usb key >>>>> as sdb. >>>>> What's up? seems like an odd bug... >>>>> >>>>> Jason. >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> rhelv6-list mailing list >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> rhelv6-list mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> rhelv6-list mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> rhelv6-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list > > _______________________________________________ > rhelv6-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list > _______________________________________________ rhelv6-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list
