I am not sure how to do either of those things, but I have had problems with the virtual CD and Floppy drives and I believe you can disable them in the BIOS. This is a pain, depending on how many you have, but its something to try :)
There is probably a reason for having them there, but I have never been clear on what it was. On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 5:26 PM, Dale Schuster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to push an image to both Sun Blades x6220 and Dell Blades m600. > Both of these different architectures have Virtual CD-Roms and Virtual > Floppy drives which are being detected during the install process. The > image was created on a Dell Poweredge 2950 running RedHat Enterprise Linux > 4 AS. I enabled UYOK during image creation and the drivers seem to be > loading properly for both brands of hardware. > > The failing process seems to be the initial format of the hard disk using > DD. > > run_autoinstall_script > >>> /scripts/h1.sh > > get_arch > enumerate_disks > sda > sdb > sdc > DISKS=3 > > Partitioning /dev/sda... > Old partition table for /dev/sda: > Error: Error opening /dev/sda: No medium found > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1 || shellout > dd: /dev/sda: No medium found > Killing off running processes. > > > And an excerpt from dmesg shows the detection of the CD-Rom. > > scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices > Using cfq io scheduler > Vendor: AMI Model: Virtual CDROM Rev: 1.00 > Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: > 02 > USB Mass Storage device found at 3 > usb 2-5: new full speed USB device using address 4 > scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices > Vendor: AMI Model: Virtual Floppy Rev: 1.00 > Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: > 02 > Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 > USB Mass Storage device found at 4 > scsi2 : ioc0: LSISAS1068E, FwRev=01160100h, Ports=1, MaxQ=268, > IRQ=201 > Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST973402SSUN72G Rev: 0603 > Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: > 05 > SCSI device sdb: 143374738 512-byte hdwr sectors (73408 MB) > SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write through > SCSI device sdb: 143374738 512-byte hdwr sectors (73408 MB) > SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write through > sdb: unknown partition table > Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 > Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST973402SSUN72G Rev: 0603 > Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: > 05 > SCSI device sdc: 143374738 512-byte hdwr sectors (73408 MB) > SCSI device sdc: drive cache: write through > SCSI device sdc: 143374738 512-byte hdwr sectors (73408 MB) > SCSI device sdc: drive cache: write through > sdc: sdc1 > Attached scsi disk sdc at scsi2, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 > device-mapper: 4.5.5-ioctl (2006-12-01) initialised: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > sr0: scsi-1 drive > Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 > Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 > > <snip> > > Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type > 5 > Attached scsi generic sg1 at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type > 0 > Attached scsi generic sg2 at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type > 0 > Attached scsi generic sg3 at scsi2, channel 0, id 1, lun 0, type > 0 > > > > I've tried to modify the oscarimage.master script (which is symlinked to > h1.sh) to specify /dev/sdb instead of /dev/sda, but it has no effect. > Dev/sda is still being referenced. I think if I don't use the UYOK kernel > it will use my modified master install script, but then the SAS hard > drives aren't accessible. > > So, to summarize, I want to either get SIS to use my edited version of the > installation script and reference /dev/sdb instead of /dev/sda, OR change > the boot image to properly detect the hard drives as /dev/sda instead of > /dev/sdb. > > Please help. > > ~Dale > > -- > Dale Schuster > Systems Administrator > Sierra Nevada Corporation > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference > Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. > Use priority code J8TL2D2. > > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone > _______________________________________________ > Oscar-users mailing list > Oscar-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Oscar-users mailing list Oscar-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users
