On Mon, March 22, 2010 00:22, Matt Domsch wrote: > On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 03:17:52PM -0400, David Hubbard wrote: >> Got a PowerEdge T510 with internal raid >> plus an H800 controller hooked to an MD1200 >> external array. Trying to install centos; >> raid controllers are >> >> bus 2 device 0 internal >> bus 7 device 0 external >> >> During setup its identifying /dev/sda as >> external storage which I don't want. Is >> there anything I can tweak to make it >> detect the storage in an order that >> results in the internal being /dev/sda? > > Aside from the great suggestions in this thread already (install with > the external enclosure disconnected, make sure BIOS boot order is set > to use the internal disk first, set up your initrd to load drivers for > the internal disk controller first), there's yet another trick which > Dell included in Anaconda exactly to handle this... > > http://linux.dell.com/installermagic.shtml > > The interesting part is this kickstart directive: > > part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=1844 --onbiosdisk=80 --asprimary > > where 80 is the (hex) value for the first int13 disk. And of course > you set the int13 disk order in BIOS SETUP (or using DTK). > > The magic bit is that you really want to use parted or fdisk to first > create an empty partition table on every (logical) disk in the system. > You don't want to just write zeros to the MBR of every disk. parted > and fdisk know how to fill in a unique signature in the appropriate > MBR field, which anaconda uses to recognize and pair up the BIOS list > of disks with the Linux list of disks. >
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