-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kovacs, Corey J. Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 9:27 AM To: Discussion list about Kickstart Subject: RE: How do I disable san/fiber channel connectivity at boot whenusing the RH/Centos 6 installer
Not sure if it's still useful but there used to be a 'nostorage' option you could put on the boot line. Then you had to specify what you wanted to load in the preamble of the kickstart file. Not sure if it's still there tho. For example. device scsi cciss would work for rhel4/5 and HP gear. On rhel6+, you'd put device hpsa for the same machine since the driver changed. Another option is to figure out what storage drivers get loaded for your hardware and explicitly unload them in the %pre section if the install, for example. %pre modprobe -r qla2xxx There are other ways but these have worked for me. Also, make sure if you are doing kickstarts with FC connected that your SAN is set up properly and fibre switches zoned etc or you could end up with a bunch of empty luns across the san. Hope this helps. Corey ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Vratislav Podzimek [[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 6:18 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: How do I disable san/fiber channel connectivity at boot when using the RH/Centos 6 installer On Tue, 2012-01-31 at 13:41 -0600, Brent Clements wrote: > How do I disable san/fiber channel connectivity at boot when using the > RH/Centos 6 installer? > > We have a ton of luns that are provisioned to this server and it takes > a long time for us to scroll through the disks to find the local diskyou w > for the install when we manually provision a system. is there a nosan > or nofiberchannel option for the boot options when booting a boot iso? > Where do you have such a long list? If you choose "Specialized Storage Devices" then you have a screen with tabs. Only the last one (for searching) contains all items. If you want to find your local disk, just stay on the first tab -- "Basic Devices". There shouldn't be any of your luns on this tab. I don't understand what could be a problem here. -- Vratislav Podzimek [Jack Allen] When I had this problem on a system a while back, I just unplugged the FC cable and did the install because I only needed the local disk to store the OS on. Data would be on the SAN LUNs and setup later. Then when it was time to reboot after the install completed, I plugged the FC cables back in. ------------------------- Jackson C. Allen McKesson Provider Technologies 5995 Windward Parkway Alpharetta, GA 30005 (404) 338-2023 [email protected] Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
