On Feb 3, 2012, at 1:34 PM, wwp <subscript at free.fr> wrote: > Hello Jerry, > > > On Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:24:14 -0500 Jerry Geis <geisj at 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. You can try disabling USB disk support in the bios. -Ross