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Iain Conochie iain at uk.colt.net
Tue Feb 28 09:37:42 UTC 2006


Brian Long wrote:
> Iain Conochie wrote:
> 
>> Morning,
>>
>>     Is it possible to stop the auto probe on a 3.0AS kickstart 
>> installation? I have an adaptec SAS controller card, and the install 
>> program mistakenly uses the aacraid driver to support this device. I 
>> have a drivers disk from IBM (this is an x366 server) which contains 
>> the correct driver but the install program loads the aacraid driver 
>> before i have a chance of using the IBM supplied driver!
>>
>>     Any ideas? Anyone managed to successfully install on this server?
>>
>> Cheers
> 
> 
> You could pass 'nostorage' to newer RHEL 3 kickstarts and it won't probe 
> any storage.  Make sure you also add 'dd' so it prompts for the driver 
> disk.
> 
> /Brian/

Cheers Brian. I found that passing 'noprobe' works as well, however I 
have to manually add the network driver to make sure kickstart worked.

In the end I had to put AS 4.0 on this as none of the drivers seem to 
support the Adaptec SAS card....

Cheers

Iain

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