Nathan Milford wrote, On 01/24/2010 01:10 PM: > I may have missed it in my searches, but > > Anyone ever find a way to configure PERC from a Kickstart script? > > I imagine it would require somehow getting megacli available to the %pre > environment. > > Anyone achieved this before?
Nathan, I've got a SUSE SLES10 deployment DVD (and USB key) that i'm currently lazy on and just boot 'rescue' mode where i have scripts in /MegaRAID/ that call megacli and megarc (located in /MegaRAID) for PERC[456] configurations. I do that before the AutoYast autoconfiguration instead of during it, because it's not high enough priority at this point amongst the myriad other issues i've got. What you have to worry about if you do make PERC mods live, is forcing the system to reprobe the SCSI bus. Take a look at rescan_scsi_bus (http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/) for a simple helper (you may need to alter defaults to scan more buses/adapters/luns). If you've booted with a PERC with 4 VD's configured and you re-configure it with 6 VDs, you may have to do some work to figure out which new scsi blkdevices are correct. So, again, it's easiest to do the reconfig, reboot and work from there to avoid confusion. (but the distinct advantage and the reason i do it by DVD is to ensure a consistent and correct configuration is deployed, rather than relying on the end-user to do the right steps in the BIOS, *AND* because, as i posted in an earlier thread, if you change certain parameters in the BIOS and do them in different orders you end up with differing configurations on different machines which won't work for DRBD setups) --stephen > _______________________________________________ > Linux-PowerEdge mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge > Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
