Ignoring SAN devices during kickstart?

Phil Oester kernel at linuxace.com
Tue Oct 25 17:57:25 UTC 2005


On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 01:52:46PM -0400, Brian Long wrote:
> latefcload was only implemented in U6 to my knowledge.  Also, this just
> means qla2300 will be loaded after mptbase or whatever local SCSI disks
> you have.  This is fine when you want to make sure /dev/sda is the local
> SCSI disk; however with HP Proliants, the RAID controller disks show up
> as /dev/cciss/c0d0, c0d0, etc.  /dev/sda is the first SAN LUN and I want
> Anaconda to just completely disregard it.
> 
> I wonder if Alexander's noprobe option along with "device scsi cciss" or
> something in ks.cfg might work.

You'd be better off with 'nostorage' on the command line, so that anaconda
will still probe other devices such as network.  

Phil




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