On 02/19/2013 10:14 AM, Graham Allan wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 07:33:37PM -0700, Orion Poplawski wrote:
>> On 02/18/2013 02:01 PM, Ken Teh wrote:
>>> During a kickstart install, how are drives mapped?  I notice that sata0
>>> is not always sda.  This is especially true when there are very large
>>> drives in the mix.
>> The sd* letters are simply handed out in order of enumeration and,
>> as you noted, is not deterministic.  If you need that, use the
>> /dev/disk/by-{id,label,path,uuid} labels.
> For this reason we use a script during the kickstart %pre section which
> attempts to examine the available drives and determine which is the
> appropriate one to install on (also waits for confirmation if an
> unexpected partition table is found).
>
> G.

Any chance you can share that script?  It sounds interesting!

Pat

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Pat Riehecky
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