On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 03:01:00PM -0600, Ken Teh wrote:
>
> During a kickstart install, how are drives mapped?
>

Effectively randomly.

For example, if I run the SL6.3 installer from a USB disk,
sometimes this USB disk is named /dev/sda and the installer puts GRUB
on it, instead of the disks where the system is installer - ruining
the USB installer disk (overwrites the installer boot loader)
and creating an unbootable system (no boot loader on the system disks).

>
> I notice that sata0 is not always sda.
>

I am not sure what you mean by "sata0".

In my experience, the only reliable way to definitely
identify the correct disks is by serial numbers.

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