On 03/17/2011 12:20 PM, Joel Maslak wrote:
> I'm seeing some differences in SCSI drive numbering in SL 6 / RHEL 6, compared
> to CentOS 5 / RHEL 5.  This means that on *some* of my servers, /dev/sdb is
> actually the first hard disk, which makes kickstarting a bit more annoying.
> Does anyone know a way to reverse the order or similar easily?  A parameter to
> grub to either remove the virtual floppy or reorder these would be handy, if
> someone knows of one.  Certainly I can disable the virtual floppy in these
> machines, but I'd rather not do that (it's needed for BIOS updates).

Well, hopefully with 6.1 you'll be able to use /dev/disk/by-path labels, see:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=621515

I've made a request there for an updates image.  Might not be too hard to do.

Actually, the more I look at this, part --ondisk might work and only part 
--onpart doesn't not.  Not sure.

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