Installing RHEL 5.2 on Sun hardware - Sun Universal Xport

[Mertens, Bram]

> 


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-----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com 
> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Andrey Meganov
> Sent: woensdag 1 oktober 2008 10:12
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: Re: Installing RHEL 5.2 on Sun hardware - Sun Universal Xport
> 
> Maybe I didn't get your idea, but maybe changing udev rules might help
> 
> Sent from my iPhone as I am away from office
> 
> 
> On 01.10.2008, at 0:58, GT4NE1 <GT4NE1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I've got a new Sun Fire X4200 with an attached 2530 SAS array I'm
> > trying to install RHEL 5.2 x86_64 on.  It seems to be seeing my SAS
> > RAID controller first because when the RHEL install goes to find the
> > disks it finds a Sun Universal Xport (16MB) at /dev/sda and my
> > internal RAID 1 SAS logical disk (64GB) at /dev/sdb
> >
> > How can I get it to see the internal disk first so I can 
> install to / 
> > dev/sdb?
> >
> > I've tried searching about the Sun Universal Xport and it seem to be
> > some kind of booting from SAN thing which is why I think it sees the
> > 2530 disks first.

[snip]

If the installer sees both disks it's only a matter of configuring the
partition layout correctly.

There's no reason to install to sda instead of sdb.

Regards

Bram