look @ http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-3691 http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-17644 http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-10146 http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-17660 http://sources.redhat.com/lvm2/wiki/MultipathUsageGuide#Moving_root.2BAC8-swap_from_single_path_device_to_multipath_device
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 1:05 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > No one responded to my previous msg, so I'm simply asking again. :) > http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2009-January/038488.h > tml<http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2009-January/038488.h%0Atml> > > I hope other people have already tried to install RHEL/CentOS/Fedora/OEL > on a PowerEdge with more than one HBA. I use kickstart to do this and we > boot from SAN. > > Booting the installer with the 'linux mpath' enables anaconda to use > multipath devices, i.e. /dev/mapper/* or /dev/mpath/*. > > The problem I run into is that I have 5 LUNs and the boot LUN's id is 0 > (zero), kickstart sees it as /dev/mapper/mpath4 as opposed to > mapper/mpath0. I was hoping Linux would enumerate the devices in order > of their LUN ids. > > I am wondering if therefore the boot device mapper/mpathX will vary as X > will dependent on the number on LUNs the server sees at boot time. Has > anyone tried this or ran into a similar issue? How did you resolve it, > if you did? > > Cheers. > --- > Christian Peper > Linux Engineer, KPN ITNL > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-PowerEdge mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge > Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq >
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