Hello Jerry,
On Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:24:14 -0500 Jerry Geis geisj@pagestation.com wrote:
I am trying to install 6.2 on a machine. I am using PXE as I have done so a number of times.
My hard disk is being detected as sdb and not sda. My kickstart config is wanting it at sda.
There are no other disks in the unit. It has and SD slot and an esata although BIOS does not appear to have a disable for either of those devices.
Is there anyway to "force" the disk to sda ? or find out what its detecting at sda and disable that from the PXE boot line?
Doing " dmesg | grep sda" does say SCSI removable disk.
So how can I tell linux to NOT include that when installing?
I noticed that behaviour with my CentOS6 (installed and kept up-to-date using yum). This happened since kernel kernel-2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64 and furthers updates. Was working as expected (my laptop's hdd mounted as sda) with previous kernels, up to kernel-2.6.32-131.21.1.el6.x86_64.
I wonder if that behaviour, and the *change* of behaviour is an issue that should be reported, and how to handle it on installed systems! For now, I'm either booting w/ no USB disk plugged, or booting a 2.6.32-131 kernel.
Regards,