[rhelv6-list] kickstarting rhel6 from usb key

Jason Keltz jas at cse.yorku.ca
Thu Jun 16 15:17:07 UTC 2011


Brian Long wrote:
> On 6/15/11 3:44 PM, Jason Keltz wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> I'm kickstarting a new Red Hat 6.0 system from a USB key.
>> I've kickstarted it many times from the key in the last week, and the
>> USB key is recognized as sdb, and the system hard disk as sda.
>> However, this morning, I went to kickstart, and the USB key was suddenly
>> being recognized as sda which, of course messed up the process.
>> I tried it various times, and it continued to be that way.
>> I then had to leave it for a while because I was busy with other stuff.
>> When I came back, the hard disk is now being recognized as sda, usb key
>> as sdb.
>> What's up?  seems like an odd bug...
> 
> Have you tried the RHEL 6.1 boot on your USB key to see if they fixed
> any kernel/udev/Anaconda ordering issues?  I know a lot of work has gone
> into the various pieces to make sure the BIOS boot device (your RAID
> controller) is sda.  Are you sure your RAID controller was ready each
> time you booted from USB?  Maybe the times USB was seen as sda were the
> times RAID was not fully ready and so it was detected second?
> 
> I'm grasping at straws since I'm used to any USB boot devices being
> enumerated after the locally attached SCSI/SAS storage.  Are you running
> the latest BIOS on your server platform?

Hi Brian.
I haven't installed 6.1 yet, but I will give it a shot when I get a chance.
I'm running the latest BIOS on my motherboard + latest 3ware bios.
On the bios screen, I can see the 3ware card initialized before the 
kickstart even begins...

jas.




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