Hi folks,

We've just got a set of Tyan Thunder motherboard machines with the  
nvidia chipset

00:05.0 RAID bus controller: nVidia Corporation MCP55 SATA Controller  
(rev a3)
00:05.1 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP55 SATA Controller (rev a3)
00:05.2 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP55 SATA Controller (rev a3)

I'm installing SL5x onto them - Plan is they will be xen dom0 machines  
to run SL4x domU machines with glite 3.1 stacks in.

The raid card is seen OK with the sata_nv kernel module, but I can't  
generate a fixed name for the kickstart process
(sda or sdb are not visible during kickstart, If I omit our lvm setup  
section from kicksdtart it installs OK manually but thats not scalable.
Also I detest the bog standard RHEL method of naming /dev/VolGroup00/ 
LogVol00 /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 etc etc


svr014:~# dmraid -s
*** Active Set
name   : nvidia_djeacebf
size   : 488397056
stride : 128
type   : mirror
status : ok
subsets: 0
devs   : 2
spares : 0

svr014:~# dmraid -r
/dev/sda: nvidia, "nvidia_djeacebf", mirror, ok, 488397166 sectors,  
data@ 0
/dev/sdb: nvidia, "nvidia_djeacebf", mirror, ok, 488397166 sectors,  
data@ 0

But I want to set the nvidia_xxxxxxx to be a fixed string so I can  
define the drive settings in at build time - can anyone suggest how I  
could do this (can't see modprobe options anywhere and the docs in the  
2.6.18.* git tree are somewhat sparse).


Many thanks

Andrew


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