You can blacklist a module when you start the installation. for example:
append initrd=/boot/initrd.img blacklist=qla2xxx Grtz, Dirk On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 15:56, Allen, Jack <[email protected]> wrote: > -----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 >
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