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<div>Can you speak more to that? I'm not understanding how that would work out. Doesn't the assignment of the label happen during the partition configuration - where as I need to know which disk is the first drive in the boot order before that ( so we can
tell it that it has the / partition )</div>
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<div>This all needs to be done in a strictly automated fashion as well.</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span><<a href="mailto:kickstart-list-bounces@redhat.com">kickstart-list-bounces@redhat.com</a>> on behalf of Andrew Simpson <<a href="mailto:simpsonar77@gmail.com">simpsonar77@gmail.com</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Reply-To: </span>Discussion list about Kickstart <<a href="mailto:kickstart-list@redhat.com">kickstart-list@redhat.com</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Sunday, January 31, 2016 at 5:10 PM<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>Discussion list about Kickstart <<a href="mailto:kickstart-list@redhat.com">kickstart-list@redhat.com</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>Re: Detecting boot drive<br>
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<div dir="ltr">have you thought about trying to find it by UUID or Label? I had a similar issue in a kickstart where I could not determine the boot drive while making a USB boot image. I ended up formatting the drives with a specific LABEL and using that
in the kickstart instead of using sda/sdb/etc...</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 12:53 PM, Hajducko, Steven <span dir="ltr">
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<div>Is there a way to consistently detect the boot-drive, across multiple hardware platforms?</div>
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<div>We have several different hardware types - but it remains consistent that we always want the OS installed on the first drive in boot order. We played around with --on-bios-disk, but that doesn't always work ( it fails, for instance, on Dell R820's with
the PERC RAID controller ). We've also tried specifying <span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;font-size:medium">/dev/disk/by-id/edd-int13_dev80, which works on the Dell's, but fails on VMs. ( And then throw HP and it's cciss into the whole mix.. ). /dev/sda
isn't always the boot disk - this happens to us with certain RAID configs like 1 logical drive and 8 JBOD's. The JBOD's get detected as /dev/sda-h and the RAID drive ( which is the boot drive ), ends up as /dev/sdi.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;font-size:medium">Just curious if anyone else has come up with a solid way to always figure out what the boot drive is.</span></div>
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