Installing RHEL 5.2 on Sun hardware - Sun Universal Xport

Andrey Meganov a.meganov at gmail.com
Fri Oct 3 13:20:39 UTC 2008


It uses label-based mounting or lvm, so the device names dont matter.  
Except for the bootloader.

Sent from my iPhone as I am away from office


On 03.10.2008, at 16:12, "Mertens, Bram" <mertensb at mazdaeur.com> wrote:

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>> [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
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>> 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.
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> [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
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