How to control disk naming order in kickstart?

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coopery
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How to control disk naming order in kickstart?

Post by coopery » 2019/06/25 03:11:39

Now we are trying to PXE install Centos 7.4 in dozens of Lenovo servers in which various RAID controllers may be adopted, such as LSI SAS3008, AVAGO MegaRAID M5210 and so on. Meanwhile, both HDD and SSD types disks are available in random order.

We expect HDD disks are detected at first and then SSD and Centos are installed in sda/hda.

For example,
there are 3 HDD disks and 2 SSD disks inserted in slots randomly, the expectation is sda/sdb/sdc represent HDD disks respectively and sdd/sde represent SSD disks regardless of which slot the disk is inserted.

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Re: How to control disk naming order in kickstart?

Post by TrevorH » 2019/06/25 06:41:44

Start by installing 7.6 and not something that's 2 years old and riddled with security bugs.
The future appears to be RHEL or Debian. I think I'm going Debian.
Info for USB installs on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
CentOS 5 and 6 are deadest, do not use them.
Use the FAQ Luke

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Re: How to control disk naming order in kickstart?

Post by coopery » 2019/06/26 03:21:10

TrevorH wrote:
2019/06/25 06:41:44
Start by installing 7.6 and not something that's 2 years old and riddled with security bugs.
Got it, so we have to adjust disk sequence in slots to work it around.

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